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"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler—and less trouble."
— Mark Twain
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— Calvin Trillin
"My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers."
— Woody Allen
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
— Louis-Hector Berlioz
"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
— Bill Gates
"Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years."
— Gracie Allen
"You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day."
— Jay Mohr
"As long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools."
— Unknown
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"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
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"The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post."
— William Lyon Phelps
"I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs."
— Don Herold
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
— Flannery O'Connor
"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do [things], then YOU DESERVE IT."
— Frank Zappa
"One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries."
— Robertson Davies
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"A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student."
— Henry Youngman
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
— Minna Thomas Antrim
"The 2 rules of Judo training: 1) the teacher is always right and 2) when you think the teacher is wrong, refer to rule one."
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Whistleblowers and Surveillance in 21st Century USA —
02 Mar 2013—
The US government has a Whistleblower Protection Act, but this podcast recounts multiple cases where people who blew the whistle on the illegal and unethical activities of the American empire have been ruthlessly punished or prosecuted. ~~ Then Glen Greenwald gives a speech titled "Challenging the US Surveillance State." He begins by reviewing the evidence that all US administrations have systematically abused their technological ability to listen in on US citizens. And as the powers of technology have increased, so has covert spying on the populace.
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Zombie Nukes—Undead Power Plants That Feast on Human Money! —
06 Mar 2013 —
There are a number of utility-owned nuclear power plants in the United States that are offline and not coming back online anytime soon, but also not scheduled to be shut down. Of course, you can't just abandon a dormant nuclear plant, at least not until the decision has been made to properly shut it down for good. Thus, these zombie plants continue to drain the public's pocketbook—usually through electricity rates—sometimes to the tune of $50 million dollars a month—without generating a single watt of electricity!
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Joshua Farley on the Political Economy of Ecosystem Services —
07 Mar 2013—
Professor Joshua Farley of Vermont University explains why we need to escape the traditional thinking of economists and politicians that says the environment is a subset of the economy. It is, of course, the other way around. For now, as we try to out-clever the system and continue flouting the proper economy-environment relationship—i.e. the laws of nature—we are merely bulldozing the pile of consequences further (and higher) into the future. But that cannot last.
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