{"quotes":[{"text":"So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so often confused.","author":"Esmé Raji Codell","tags":["teaching"],"id":357,"author_id":"Esm%C3%A9+Raji+Codell"},{"text":"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["america","big-bang","big-bang-theory","church-and-state","creation","creationism","dinosaurs","education","evolution","first-amendment","freedom","freedom-of-religion","intelligent-design","letters","literacy","new-jersey","new-york-times","noah-s-ark","religion","science","scientific-literacy","teachers","teaching"],"id":533,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"...God is already out there in the world ahead of us. In our teaching, therefore, we must do more than merely help people learn how to be good church members. We are directors preparing people for roles in a drama that encompasses every part of their lives.","author":"Richard Robert Osmer","tags":["education","teaching"],"id":1553,"author_id":"Richard+Robert+Osmer"},{"text":"Teaching Career does not begin with the completion of graduation and post graduation and attaining a degree – it begins the moment one starts caring about learners.","author":"Kavita Bhupta Ghosh","tags":["teaching"],"id":1735,"author_id":"Kavita+Bhupta+Ghosh"},{"text":"I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They don’t want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they do want to hurt. They want to scare me because fear is the only way they have learned to feel powerful.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["fear","men","power","powerful","teaching","violence"],"id":1797,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["becoming","drama","foolishness","gossiping","love","misery","risk","teaching"],"id":2481,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["criticism","critics","dealing-with-criticism","feedback","judgment","learning","teacher","teaching"],"id":3458,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years,' she announced with some small sense of achievement. 'I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["education","grades","grading","teachers","teaching"],"id":3764,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["chase","clarity","concentration","focus","follow","follow-people","followers","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","knowledge","lead-yourself","leader","leaders","leadership","leanr","learners","learning","mentor","mentors","model","personal-development","principles","role-model","self-leaders","self-leadership","teach","teachers","teaching"],"id":4005,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","drinking","inspirational","memoir","southeast-asia","taiwan","teachers","teaching","travel","travel-writing","writing"],"id":4173,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1105,"pages":111,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}