"Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough."

-- Arne Duncan

#Teaching Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“I think the country needs a good laugh. There are so many things dividing us right now, in the real world, that the timing is right for escapist entertainment that makes you feel better about your own family. If this family can survive, than everyone has got a chance.”
“To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.”

Source : Peter Koestenbaum (1974). “Existential sexuality; choosing to love”
“The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.”
“... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers - no one thing led to the triumph of Christianity.”

Source : Rodney Stark (1996). “The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History”, p.3, Princeton University Press
“They see me rollinâ€™, they hatinâ€™”
“Music has always been profoundly important to me.”
“Again its time to pray for peace.”
“What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?”

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