Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
Interpretation
While good teachers impart knowledge, great teachers inspire and change their students' lives.
This quote emphasizes the distinction between merely teaching information and fostering a transformative educational experience. Good teachers provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills, but great teachers go beyond that, influencing their students' thoughts, beliefs, and ultimately, their futures, creating a lasting impact that shapes them as individuals.
In practice
During a teacher appreciation speech, to highlight the impact of educators on students.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
If you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.β An entire community - now that is really interesting! Then I found the quote changed a little more on the Kingdom of Jordan website by her Royal Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan during her interview with Oprah Winfrey. Queen Rania relates the quote in these words: βAs you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future.
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
There is nothing so costly as ignorance.
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