There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank - you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr....

I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going to the Young Authors Conference where I'd get...

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by...

I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to...

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of...

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

None of the standard high school science courses made much of an impression on me, but I did enjoy the Advanced Placement Chemistry course I took in my senior year. This course had only eleven...

I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school. I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen...

Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has...

It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where...

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.