Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
A residential school also takes cares of the problem of malnourishment and interaction with their peers, and their teachers help build the qualities of a leader.
As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.
One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'
I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.
We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.
We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.
I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.
I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.
Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.
We must continue to invest at the local level to help cities, towns, and villages retain teachers, police, firefighters, and other community-enhancing service providers.
I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten teachers that we do free performances for the children.
