Tea Quotes - Page 12

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.

The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.