Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child, as it is to the caterpillar.
– Bradley Miller
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- The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. – Sloan Wilson
- I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student – and not to a test. – Erin Gruwell
- When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child,I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Corinthians
- Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. – Bob Talbert
- I’m at the foot of the ladder…I’m going to step off…now. That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind. – Neil
- You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. – Abraham Maslow
- Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals’, the ones who somehow know how to teach. – Peter Drucker
- Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. – Alice Miller
- I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I’m present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else’s hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles. – Akshay Kumar
- There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – Buckminster Fuller