Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America’s students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and ‘Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.’
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof – of which history offers so many examples – that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
Parma is an amazing Parmesan cheese substitute made from walnuts. It tastes like a dream and is healthy, to boot!
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands – there’s really no substitute.
I just grow a terrible mustache, so I try to use my neckbeard as a substitute. And when I get lazy, I don’t shave that often.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
If you think about it, many of the great inventions of the last 200 years were designed to replace human labor. Tractors were developed to substitute mechanical power for human physical toil.
The N.R.A.’s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks – devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster – is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.
There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Nothing substitutes for a great education.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.
My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair – she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.
Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
Marriage is no substitute for political experience.
I first remember Wayne Rooney from a game at Old Trafford in 2002 when he came on as a late substitute for Everton and, in a brilliant 15-minute performance, skipped past me on a couple of occasions.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as ‘suits’.
Being a substitute can be an advantage. I know this situation from the national team. And I am also good as a player coming from the bench.
I don’t think there’s any substitute for experience.
Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they’re good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute ‘Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.’
I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s me.’
We often mistake the artificial chemical and psychological thrill of fake edges for the real. In fact we often seek them out as a substitute for the reality of change, growth and exploration. Our minds and bodies help us in this, as they react much the same to this simulations as to the real world.
I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That means that anything that wants to substitute for the American dollar should be permitted.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
There’s no substitute for guts.
A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there’s no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
I’m not here to substitute Neymar. Barcelona needed a player in my position, and I’m here to help.
When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, ‘Oh, this is going to be a substitute for pay TV in the living room.’
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
At the intersection of food science and technology, food replacement startups are creating substitutes for the basic components of meals as well as replacements for complete meals.
You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.
While there’s no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action – almost like case studies in school.
Every schoolteacher will tell you that there is no substitute for engaged parents in the education of a child.
What I don’t believe is that DVDs or HD broadcasts can be a substitute for the real thing.
Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they’d originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.
In Spain, we mainly use red plum tomatoes, but it is always fun to experiment. Try using a mix of colors or substitute green tomatoes for plum next time you make a tomato dish.
You can’t substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
There is nothing you can substitute for reps and carries in a game.
Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
The people I’ve been around who’ve been successful – be it players, executives, coaches – there’s no substitute for a hard day’s work.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists – the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people – tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn’t exist.
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
My father taught me how to substitute realities.
Literally’ – I’m not having it; people can’t go around saying ‘literally.’ Otherwise, what’s literal? There’s not another word for literally: if it isn’t figurative or metaphorical, what is it? It’s literal: there’s no substitute.
The substitute for knowledge is money.
Many substitutes have won the Euros, World Cup or Champions League without contributing anything.
I could have easily carved out a niche, but I realised that Saira Banu the actress can be replaced, but nobody can substitute my duty towards my family.
I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there’s not a lot of teaching involved in that.
This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.
