"As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful."

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Source : "Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

Rosalind Wiseman

#Teacher Quotes #Kids Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.”
“You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.”
“And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.”
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
“No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.”

Source : 1656 The Commonwealth of Oceana.
“We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that should be collectively financed and available to everyone on equal terms. My wife and I just interviewed the German minister of health, and it was an exhilarating experience, because it was a totally different language. It was obviously important that everyone should have the same deal in health care.”
“Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

Source : Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.116, Lulu.com

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