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"Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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Personal Development
"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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Personal Development
"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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Personal Development
"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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Personal Development
"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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Personal Development
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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Personal Development
"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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Personal Development
"A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame."
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Personal Development
"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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Personal Development
"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label."
Trouble
"There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing."
Quality
"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."
Love
"We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher."
Teaching
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
Education
"This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth."
Education
"The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned."
Education
"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
Change
"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"
Work
"As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families."
Knowledge
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