teaching

The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian nations, and it influenced impoverished Muslims in the third ring, who wore Manchester United tee shirts with 'Rooney' on the back, twisting further the attitudes and perceptions of those who were bent already toward radicalism.

Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and establishment of facts, assuming that actual facts may ever be determined. Its sole purpose is to cram the pupils, as rapidly and as painlessly as possible, with the largest conceivable outfit of current axioms, in all departments of human thought__o make the pupil a good citizen, which is to say, a citizen differing as little as possible, in positive knowledge and habits of mind, from all other citizens. In other words, it is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but this is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student.

Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything.

You can not teach art, it's not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers.

When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life.

The world's only lessons are tension and fear _ relax into yourself.

Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract at the same farm every year, where the farmer pays you on time and doesn't cheat or abuse you, then it's in your best interest to show up consistently from year to year.

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life.

You are the grand estate and administrator of _ now.

Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path _ and that person could even be you.