Backbenchers Quotes

Perverse times have come The mystery of the Beloved to reveal Crows have begun to hunt hawks, Sparrows have vanquished falcons. Horse browse on rubbish, Donkeys graze on lush green. No love is lost between relatives, Be they younger or older uncles. There is no accord between fathers and sons, nor any between mothers and daughters. The truthful ones are being pushed about, the tricksters are seated close by, the front-liners have become wretched, the backbenchers sit on carpets. Those in taters have turned into Kings, The Kings have taken to begging. Oh Bullah, comes the command from the Lord, who can ever alter His decree? Perverse times have come, The mystery of the beloved to reveal

Teaching Career does not begin with the completion of graduation and post graduation and attaining a degree – it begins the moment one starts caring about learners.

a safe and humble backbencher’s niche in the Senate was the inheritance of a Julius these days,

Even as a game of chance, however, Brexit is especially odd. It is a surreal casino in which the high-rollers are playing for pennies at the blackjack tables while the plebs are stuffing their life savings into the slot machines. For those who can afford risk, there is very little on the table; for those who cannot, entire livelihoods are at stake. The backbench anti-Brexit Tory MP Anna Soubry rose to her feet in the Commons in July 2018, eyed her Brexiteer colleagues and let fly: ‘Nobody voted to be poorer, and nobody voted Leave on the basis that somebody with a gold-plated pension and inherited wealth would take their jobs away from them.’ But if that’s not what people voted for, it is emphatically what they got: if the British army on the Western Front were lions led by donkeys, Brexit is those who feel they have nothing to lose led by those who will lose nothing either way.

Throughout the 1950s, the government was reluctant to recognise that the country had a problem with racism. But there was some movement. In 1960, backbench Labour MP Archibald Fenner Brockway repeatedly tried to bring forward a Race Discrimination Bill with the aim of outlawing ‘discrimination to the detriment of any person on the grounds of colour, race and religion in the United Kingdom’.28 Every single one of the nine times he tabled the Bill, it was defeated.

Wednesday morning? At Eight? And don't mind her. She can come across as little rude.

Human nature! Everybody supports an underdog.

Good classroom management is the art of dealing with problems positively and looking for solutions together so that everyone is involved and willing to find a remedy.

The majority of these old farts are content to crash out in a drunken stupor on the backbenches. They just want to pick up their company directorships at £200,000 a year, claim for everything they ever spend personally on expenses and make sure not to rock the boat. I have better things to do with my time than to waste it by voting a different yarn-spinning joker-in-the-pack in. Whoever's in power is not going to affect me in any way. And if you believe otherwise then you can truly nail your colours to the mast of stupidity

For Bernie, winning wasn’t the only thing. I’m a backbencher in Congress, he told Devine. I want to come out of this in a better position to push the issues I care about. He wanted a higher profile in the Senate if he ran and lost. “A presidential campaign, if done well, can accomplish that,” Devine replied.

Education is incomplete without learning self-preservation.

Dreams come at a price of honest blood, fearless toil and God fearing wars.

Teachers are silent and unassuming spectators of the beautiful world they create without expecting anything in return.

Teaching without talent, compassion and endurance is like an octopus on skates - there will be movement without direction.

The sign of great teaching is not in the Child’s marks or grades; but in the Child’s positive attitude towards learning.

Competent teachers do not challenge students to achieve, they challenge themselves to create such learning environment where every student is a willing achiever. That makes all the difference.

In his essay on Clemenceau in Great Contemporaries, Churchill had commended the way the Frenchman was ‘fighting, fighting all the way’ through life.254 Over the next five months Churchill had to fight the Government whips, the Prime Minister, the press (especially The Times), Conservative Central Office, his backbench colleagues, the Security Services and his own constituency association. In some parliamentary divisions he led a party of three, and sometimes two. Yet in that same desolate period he showed the greatest moral courage of his life, and laid the foundations of his future wartime leadership.

Abbott’s one big idea in Health was for the Commonwealth to take control of all the nation’s hospitals. This required a shift in his thinking. In the Keating years he had declared that Australia had “a perfectly good system of government provided each tier minds its own business.” He didn’t think so any longer. “As a new backbencher, I had not anticipated how hard this was, given that voters don’t care who solves their problems, they just want them solved.” As Minister for Health he lit on a new guiding conservative principle: “Power divided is power controlled.” He had in mind an enormous reform that would reshape Canberra’s relations with the states. He was roundly mocked in cabinet. His senior bureaucrats put a lot of work into talking him down. Did he really want to be responsible for every asthma patient who had to wait too long in an emergency department? Eventually he was persuaded that Commonwealth public servants could not run hospitals any better than state public servants. This was the argument that got him, but he found it frustrating.

When Dr. Ramasamy first lectured to their class in the century-old Donovan Auditorium, even the murmuring backbenchers were silenced when the tall, confident woman in a short-sleeved lab coat floated in. She had launched right into inflammation, the body’s first response to any threat, the common denominator of all disease. In minutes she had drawn them into the thick of a battle: the invaders (typhoid bacteria) are spotted by the hilltop sentries (macrophages), who send signals back to the castle (the bone marrow and lymph nodes). The few aging veterans of previous battles with typhoid (memory T-lymphocytes) are roused from their beds, summoned to hastily teach untested conscripts the specific typhoid-grappling skills needed, and then to arm them with custom lances designed solely to latch onto and pierce the typhoid shield—in essence, the veterans clone their younger selves. The same veterans of prior typhoid campaigns also assemble a biological-warfare platoon (B lymphocytes) who hastily manufacture a one-of-a-kind boiling oil (antibodies) to pour over the castle wall; it will melt the typhoid intruders’ shields, while not harming others. Meanwhile, having heard the call to battle, the rogue mercenaries (neutrophils), armed to the teeth,

Your language is a minority government where backbenchers rise suddenly, threaten to cross the floor, and what comes from your mouth is a difficult vote.

hunting because of the 2004 Hunting Act. This is not a good advertisement for legislation. Yet, to appreciate the full force of the sham, recall, in wonder, the great ruptures between town and country, left and right, liberals and animal-welfare nuts, that preceded the ban. The march of 400,000 wax-jacketed pro-hunt protesters through London, the 700 hours of parliamentary debates devoted to the issue, the threat from Labour backbenchers to oppose all government business unless the ban was brought—it was madness. Even at the time, it seemed so: a dilettantish, illiberal, class-infused blot on what was otherwise a British golden age, for politics and the economy—as even the ban’s reluctant main architect, Tony Blair, later admitted. A man not given to regrets, the then prime minister considered the ban one of his biggest. “God only knows,” he reflected, what the point of it was.

Back-benchers and Last-rankers in School; they have determined hands, powerful minds and courage to turn the mountain of opportunities in their favour, grind challenges and mould desires and dreams into Grand Realities.

A shower of rain rejuvenates nature; similarly a Good Teacher rejuvenates learners with the beauty of knowledge. A shower of rain in the desert rejuvenates the most barren wasteland and helps hibernating flowers to bloom with an explosion of colour and eagerness; similarly a Great Teacher rejuvenates hibernating learners to bloom with an explosion of love for learning, curiosity and eagerness to explore the world without fear and inhibitions.

Teachers are the architects of a Nation. They build characters, construct personalities and strengthen spirits in learners who become National Assets of tomorrow.

I thought I would teach my students a thing or two from the text books once I got a job in school but to my surprise my students teach me things about life and myself every single day.

Good Teachers are like Accomplished Drivers on high-risk roads. They have a fabulous sense of direction, control, judgement and respect for signals - they know when to speed, when to stop and when to give way to others. They save innumerable lives everyday.

Theodore Roosevelt: ‘The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

One of the Coalition policies most resented by Nationals backbenchers proposed that companies would be paid to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions. With a budget of $2.55 billion over four years, the ‘Direct Action’ scheme was widely seen as a second-rate compromise that allowed the government to assert that it was fighting global warming while it abolished Labor’s emissions trading scheme. ‘That’s not going to change the temperature of the globe but it’s a lot of money at the moment,’ one Nationals MP said.

Teachers influence more by what they are, what they do, what they represent and what they believe than by what they teach and preach.

She sees you in her diaries as this fiery backbencher, and then you get in the cabinet and you’re behaving (to her) differently; that is, you seemed to be more of a compromiser. She found this almost shocking. I don’t find it surprising at all: “If you’re going to be in the cabinet for God’s sakes ... ” I began. Michael finished my sentence: “You have to compromise.” Michael added: “I sometimes said to Jill if I’d had the experience of being in the cabinet before I wrote it [the Bevan biography] I would have written somewhat differently. He was making compromises to get through the main things he wanted. He had to keep on his side people like Dalton and Ernest Bevin. Herbert Morrison was the one who was opposed to the way he [Bevan] was doing the Health Service and he had to be prepared to compromise.

Crushes don't just develop over time,they are built over the foundation of basic trust.

It is a myth that students hate strict teachers. Students possess an innate ability to respect knowledge and recognize effort which ultimately paves the way to cognize good intentions of the teacher.

Children are gifted healers. Without them, we would be broken. Keep them alive within yourselves and you will see that the world is a better place.

Students are extremely honest – when they like what they do, they are curious and ask questions. They are even more honest when they don’t like what they do – they look into their watches.

A soft-spoken teacher can cook a storm in the classroom with right words. Students only listen to powerful words spoken softly. A loud teacher cooks a storm outside the classroom only for bystanders.

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Curiosity is the Currency to Cognitive Functioning of the Child's brain. It drives children to start learning in the most effective way.

Education is relished when it is served with ardour and fervour.

If physical classrooms forced students to be at their seats out of fear, virtual classrooms tempt students to be in front of their computers out of curiosity and eagerness. The baby steps of the teachers into the technological world have progressed into giants leaps now. Cut the flak and acknowledge the courage of teachers who evolved as digitally smart educators overnight with 21st century skill set.

A driving licence only gives permission to legally operate a motor vehicle, it does not promise efficiency. Most amateur drivers have to face flak and occasional road rage until they learn to master the vehicle like a boss. Similarly, a teacher’s degree only gives permission to officially teach in classrooms. Teachers have to face flak until they learn to master classroom situations. It is all about consistent practice, willingness to learn, patience and persistence.

You cannot buy Great Teachers. You earn them....

When I teach, I shape a team. When I teach, I grow trust. When I teach, I allow transparency. When I teach, I rear courage. When I teach, I enable opportunities. When I teach, I learn about hopes and fears of my students. When I teach, I also teach beyond books. I teach to sculpt a better world.

Something to worry – Few want to be teachers today. Something to think – One reason for someone to be teacher today. Something to do – Empower Teachers. They need to flourish, not flounder.

Teaching is not about how we see things, it is about how children see things.

A Teacher who has courage to laugh at herself or himself; laugh with students, and laugh off difficulties is the harbinger of positive trails and cheerful learning outcomes.

Washington isn’t a nest of vipers. Really. It’s a city of mostly well-intentioned people who, like the rest of us, sometimes cut corners out of expedience, self-interest, or, quite possibly, the greater good. It’s a city defined not by its cardinal sins, but by its venal ones. For every bug-eyed backbencher who insists Mexican immigrants are all al-Qaeda sleeper agents, or every slick lobbyist clamoring to sign an energy company that drenched half of Puget Sound in unrefined crude, there are thousands of far more relatable individuals committing much less conspicuous, and more ethically muddled, offenses: the congressman who votes for a discriminatory bill that won’t go anywhere to earn political capital so he or she can defeat their challenger who would bring a much more harmful agenda to Washington; the reporter who holds off on a story about a senator’s special interest fundraiser to stay in the lawmaker’s good graces for a larger piece about malfeasance among congressional leadership; the political staffer who holds their tongue when a colleague cashes out at a lobbying firm because they, too, might one day want to stop working eighty hours a week while making $45,000 a year. All

All the while schools and teachers have been working hard 'to fit' the Millennial generation into the orthodox classroom culture, ironically the Millennials are busy shaping the classroom culture to fit themselves.

A classroom is like a Greenhouse where the teacher must provide essential amenities like knowledge and life-skill with patience and empathy, control temperatures and provide adequate ventilation to release unwanted energies for everyone and everything to bloom.

What salt is to food, passion is to teaching.

Artistic teachers can, on a sudden desire stop teaching, and turn a class upside down by making students laugh. They can create galaxies on walls, make marine life crawl out of windows and invite pharaohs out of class cupboards!

True leadership of teachers count in building humanity and character in students, and not in writing their report cards.

If you survived a difficult teacher in school, you will survive every challenge life throws at you.

When life is hard, it appoints itself as the best teacher.

When you plagiarize someone's story; you steal their feelings, you steal their dreams, you steal their soul. And you lie to your readers. Stories as these are nothing but intellectual robbery.

Every human has a personal story to tell, a private moment to share and poignant experience to contribute; one need not steal from another.

Teachers are people who put their own life, their own family and monetary benefit as the last things on the list. Happiness and wellbeing of students always come first in their list.

We are so busy teaching small things about life to children that we forget to learn big things from them.

Get teachers who would do anything to keep schools safe even if they come dear because children are dearer.

Mistakes write inspirational stories of success for people who refuse to quit.

It's the middle and backbenchers who change the world, whereas toppers and front benchers only make good employees.

The final result of classroom teaching is seen in the way students present themselves, deal with challenges and contribute to the world. Rest is just history.

Exam is a journey and not destination, Failure is a lesson and not judgement, Success is a beginning of something and not the end of everything.

The way it’s going… (166 words) A foul-mouthed Pee-wee Herman runs for president. People finally realize what a racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, and homophobic bigot he is. He’s clearly not a politician. Rather, he’s someone who speaks his mind, and that makes him relatable. Herman runs against a faceless, forgettable career backbencher who’s been wrong on every issue for half a century, has become a multimillionaire without a legal avenue to attaining his fortune, and who you’re told you have to vote for because he’s experienced. Last year, we were told that the politician had a lobotomy, but the alternative is even worse. The voters will be hit with a tsunami of stomach-turning, deceptive ads and told that they have to vote for one of the two, or else they’ll be throwing away their democracy. In four years, they’ll run Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s coat for president. No one will notice. His coat will have more integrity than all of the idiots in recent years they’ve presented to us so we can confirm them.

Backbench MP Edward Pickersgill captured the Liberal temper when he denounced the affair as a sordid business. ‘I suppose secret service work is necessary’, he conceded. ‘But it is dirty work, and when a man has been at the business for twenty years … [his hand] is imbued with that dirty work as is the dyer’s hand.

Good teaching is like a vehicle that runs on four wheels of conceptual efficacy, instinctual guidance, imagination and innovation.

The typical pol: all the politicians out there who need the job to validate their insecurities. They’re not inherently against accomplishments and they’re not unwilling to do actual work—it’s just secondary to their need for attention.* The ideologue: the true believer like the Green Party on the left or the Tea Party on the right. People like Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul are in this category. The “I’m just happy to be here”: These are the backbenchers who do little or the people who only see their job as winning office, enjoying the perks and attention, and not actually governing. The corrupt pol: people constantly engaging in pay-to-play politics, trading donations for favors, and sometimes even taking outright bribes.

Some people give meaning to your lives. Without them, nothing seems okay. It does not really make sense at all times. And is not supposed to. The matters of the heart are way too twisted.

Great teachers are not made in training institutes. Great Teachers are made in classrooms when they are cornered, questioned and tested by students. The way teachers face these challenges with patience, efficiency and dignity defines their greatness.

Teaching Virtually through the Pandemic meant Flying through Dark and Stormy Skies. It meant flying through uncertainties and unsettling changes. But Schools across the World Confronted Everything through and beyond Crisis With unbeatable Courage and Perseverance To emerge stronger, smarter and sassier!

Online teaching during the pandemic is like mastering the game of the Blind Man’s Buff

Your best teacher is someone who learns, develops and grows in diverse directions and takes students everywhere in that journey. They learn, develop and grow together.

Jim Is there no other way? Claire We could just say no to him. Jim Can’t risk that. Collapse of conference, collapse of backbench support, collapse of Cabinet. Collapse of my career. The biggest disaster since Dunkirk. Humphrey I think not, Prime Minister. Jim Name a bigger one. Humphrey The Freedom of Information Act.

Great Teachers are passionate and compassionate - they have a powerful personality to engage every mind in the classroom. They are never forgotten.

The best way to a student's mind is through the heart.

Being obnoxious occasionally is not always wrong. It is a kind of outrage, passion and determination to overcome obstacles and fulfill dreams. Be obnoxious with troubles, not with people.

Teaching is not just about dissemination of knowledge, but drilling three major skills in children - personalized study strategy, time management and memory retention. This means teaching course material is not enough, teaching how to learn is equally important.

There are no back-benchers in a classroom when teachers walk about and teach instead of sitting at their desk in front. It is not the position of students that define them as front-benchers or back-benchers, it is position of the teacher that decides this.

It is not only about braving a storm but making a rainbow after the havoc that life is all about.

A degree, designation and dictionary put together aren't enough to make substantial difference in life. It is acumen, attitude and fortitude that finally matters.

A teacher does not necessarily have answers for all your questions but a good teacher is always open to every question.

Everybody criticises Politicians, but some take honest responsibility of people. Many criticise Teachers, but few step into those shoes that walk on personally barren paths with selfless dream to drive the Nation to prosperity and success.

Weigh every word that you tell your children, and consider consequence of every action. Children take every word and action seriously. When they think of their childhood, let them remember one kind word, one loving pat and a smile that gave them a million hopes.

Bright and well-behaved students can be taught anywhere and by anyone, but real success is when a teacher is able to engage the naughtiest and the least interested student unconditionally in the classroom.

Donation For History *** I have nothing In my life Except, A boat of thoughts In the sea of knowledge A heart of devotion At the back-bench of literature I voluntarily flower my words Staying on that journey I realize that I have devoted The treasure of my words As a donation, for history And coming generations.

When children like a subject, it has something to do with that teacher who taught them to use invisible binoculars in order to look at concepts that are a long way away.

If you want to annoy someone, write. If you want change, write. If you want to rebel, write. That's the only way to make yourself heard. Be heard.

There are all kinds of teachers - Bossy, Lazy, Creative, Compassionate, Caring, Insensitive, Helpful, Indifferent, but there's one thing common in them. Teachers are after all human beings. Don't put them on a pedestal.

But I really can’t stand it when blokes feel the need to comment on your drinking habits. It’s rampant, all that malarkey: New Labour trying to keep people alive for ever. I don’t see them berating the royals or their backbenchers about having a cig or a large gin at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. If you put it in the context of the current climate, having a few pints and a Benson after work is hardly the worst crime on earth.