"Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists,..." - Quote by John Kennedy
Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.
More by John Kennedy
“Treat your children like the blessings they are or don't have them at all.”
“I'm not interested in more political or cultural combat.”
“You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people's pockets - and I've driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.”
More on Education
“What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.”
“If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.”
“Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.”
More on Teachers
“A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.”
“I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.”
“False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.”