Teacher
Quotes - Self-leaders do not look for followers
“There
is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”
―
Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir
“Contrary
to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular
group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned.
Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed
through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.”
―
Israelmore Ayivor
“Pick
a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A
leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of
the farmer, the teacher, the welder, the doctor, and the environmentalist --
not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance
and pharmaceutical lobbyist.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Self-leaders
are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders
inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands.
Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.”
―
Israelmore Ayivor
“I
understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody
acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has
attributed the power of reinforcing insight”
―
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
“The
Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.
~
Paramahamsa Nithyananda”
―
Paramahamsa Nithyananda, Living Enlightenment
“You
must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a
madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him
and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.
But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― C.
S. Lewis
“Self-leaders
do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial
dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and
that can be obtained from self-leaders.”
―
Israelmore Ayivor
“A
scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a
scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.”
―
Oliver Butterworth, The Enormous Egg
“I
didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words
straight and collect my A.”
―
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
“A
young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful,
sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to
position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this
self-leadership quality.”
―
Israelmore Ayivor
“...teaching
is, after all, a form of show business.”
―
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
“Alexander
Hamilton Junior High School
--
SEMESTER REPORT --
STUDENT:
Joseph Margolis
TEACHER:
Janet Hicks
ENGLISH:
A, ARITHMETIC: A, SOCIAL STUDIES: A, SCIENCE: A, NEATNESS: A, PUNCTUALITY: A,
PARTICIPATION: A, OBEDIENCE: D
Teacher's
Comments:
Joseph
remains a challenging student. While I appreciate his creativity, I am sure you
will agree that a classroom is an inappropriate forum for a reckless
imagination. There is not a shred of evidence to support his claim that Dolley
Madison was a Lesbian, and even fewer grounds to explain why he even knows what
the word means. Similarly, an analysis of the Constitutional Convention does
not generate sufficient cause to initiate a two-hour classroom debate on what
types of automobiles the Founding Fathers would have driven were they alive
today. When asked on a subsequent examination, "What did Benjamin Franklin
use to discover electricity?" eleven children responded "A Packard
convertible". I trust you see my problem.
[...]
Janet
Hicks
Parent's
Comments:
As
usual I am very proud of Joey's grades. I too was unaware that Dolley Madison
was a Lesbian. I assumed they were all Protestants.
Thank
you for writing.
Ida
Margolis”
―
Steve Kluger, Last Days of Summer
“There
is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly
less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello
“Sanabalis
never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon
cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period.
Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.”
―
Michelle Sagara West, Cast in Silence
“Never
trust a man who teaches about death
but
yet had no real experience at all about it.”
―
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“One
of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the
economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You
never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”
―
Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs
