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Bonnie Raitt American pop singer
They haven’t voted to support music education in schools, which is shameful, so we build prisons for thousands of people whose lives might have been fulfilled by music.
Music is a fundamental and powerful form of human expression and every child should have access to it in school.
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
Ramana Maharshi
All the scriptures are meant only to make a man retrace his steps to his original source. He need not acquire anything new. He only has to give up false ideas and useless accretions. Instead of doing this, however, he tries to grasp something strange and mysterious because he believes his happiness lies elsewhere. That is the mistake.
Ayn Rand
Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.
Jeannette Rankin
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
John Raper
Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases.
Diane Ravitch
The person who knows “how” will always have a job. The person who knows “why” will always be his boss.
Miss Read
Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these day of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.
Ronald Reagan
Status quo, you know, that is Latin for “the mess we’re in.”
Vanessa Redgrave
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Odilon Redon
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality . . . true art lies in a reality that is felt.
R.I. Rees
Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt.
Paul Reiser Babyhood
People often ask me, “What’s the difference between couplehood and babyhood?” In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources–all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.
Jules Renard
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Agnes Repplier
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Malvina Reynolds song “Little Boxes”
And they all play on the golf course,
and drink their martini’s dry
And they all have pretty children,
and the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp,
and then to the university,
Where they put them all in boxes,
and they all come out the same.
Beah Richards
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
Matthew B. Ridgway
Only those who have disciplined themselves can exact disciplined performance from others. (You teach what you are.)
Robert J. Ringer
If you’re prepared then you’re able to feel confident.
Adam Robinson (Co-founder of The Princeton Review)
Our entire school system is based on the notion of passive students that must be “taught” if they are to learn. . . . Our country spends tens of billions of dollars each year not just giving students a second-rate education, but at the same time actively preventing them from getting an education on their own. And I’m angry at how school produces submissive students with battered egos. Most students have no idea of the true joys of learning, and of how much they can actually achieve on their own.
Mary Robinson
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process.
Sugar Ray Robinson
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
François de la Rochefoucauld
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
John D. Rockefeller
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.
Carl Rogers (U.S. psychologist 1902 – )
I think my deepest criticism of the educational system at that period [junior high and high school], and that also applies to other periods, is that it’s all based upon a distrust of the student. Don’t trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.
I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behaviour is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.
James Rogers National Teacher of the Year
I don’t worry about meeting someone else’s standards in my classroom. I have standards.
Will Rogers (American humorist 1879 – 1935)
You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not through the noggin.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Felix Rohatyn
Strong growth in the poorer parts of the world will be needed to sustain enough growth in the West to maintain adequate levels of employment and to enable Western governments to deal with their pressing social problems.
Jim Rohn
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Alice Wellington Rollins
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
Alexis Lawrence Romanoff
Each profession has its responsibilities as well as its privileges. One who gains confidence of others also assumes responsibilities toward them.
Andy Rooney (American journalist b. 1919)
Good teachers are usually a little crazy.
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Mickey Rooney
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Eleanor Roosevelt former First Lady of the U.S.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (American president 1882-1945)
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Happiness lie in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Theodore Roosevelt (American president
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Leo Rosten
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.
Christina Rossetti
Who has seen the wind”
Neither you nor I;
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
Theodore Roszak
Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.
Esther P. Rothman
Teachers should unmask themselves, admit into consciousness the idea that one does not need to know everything there is to know and one does not have to pretend to know everything there is to know.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
The time for acquiring knowledge is so short . . . that it is folly to expect it should be sufficient to make a child learned.
The question ought not to be to teach it the sciences, but to give it a taste for them, and methods to acquire them when the taste shall be better developed.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Rita Rudner
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
Lee Rudolph
No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
Rich Ruffalo teacher
Teachers who really care are not in this for the income; we’re in this for the outcome.
Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Rumi
Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself.
Stop looking in that other way of looking.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
A child’s business is an open yard, into which any passer-by may peer curiously. It is not house, not even a glass house. A child’s reticence is a little white fence around her business, with a swinging, helpless gate through which grown-ups come in or go out, for there are no locks on your privacy.
Dagabert D. Runes
You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
John Ruskin (English art critic 1819 – 1900)
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
With every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom becomes more necessary, for every such increase augments our capacity for realizing our purposes, and therefore augments our capacity for evil, if our purposes are unwise.
The world needs wisdom as it has never needed it before; and if knowledge continues to increase, the world will need wisdom in the future even more than it does now.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.”
In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Babe Ruth
I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
The first thing is to know your faults and then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said of the chain of skill a man forges.