Quotes About Engagement

But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around.

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

When I teach people, I marry them.

I could have a job as a teacher because I like talking in front of people.

Usage is the best language teacher.

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a connection to them I would have gotten more out of school.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

to listen to him was a venture of collaboration, in which the things that were spoken of came gradually to be transformed into artefacts of a shared imagining.

Aquellos que no se entusiasman con nada se enfrían y comienzan a morirse. Hay que empezar a desear de verdad. Coger la vida con las dos manos para que no se escape, si es que comprendéis lo que quiero decir. Si no, todo está perdido.

You are here," she said. "Live here, not in the past in a country that you can't go back to.

As kids, our stock answer to most every question was nothing. What did you do at school today? Nothing. What's new? Nothing. Then, somewhere on the way to adulthood, we each took a 180-degree turn. We cashed in our nothing for busy.

As kids, our stock answer to most every question was nothing. What did you do at school today? Nothing. What's new? Nothing. Then, somewhere on the way to adulthood, we each took a 180-degree turn. We cashed in our nothing for busy .

When I read a magazine, I feel connected to the world, in on everything. When I read a book, I feel removed from the world, isolated, as if I've slipped off into a soundproof booth. It is the same with listening to the radio (connected) versus listening to a CD (removed). Both fill a certain need, balance the other out. There's the getting away, and then there's the coming back.

Once the story captures my senses, I am no longer conscious of the act of reading words. I am in the story.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.