Quotes About Empowerment

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

Don't agonise, organise.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Computers aren't magic; teachers are.

I was always my own teacher.

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.

Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

I did not come to collect students, but to train teachers.

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