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Elaine MacDonald on teacher
Author: Elaine MacDonald“If you improve a teacher’s self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher’s overall effectiveness across the curriculum.” -Elaine MacDonald
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Lily Allen on teacher
Author: Lily Allen“When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in – that’s when I realized I had a voice.” -Lily Allen
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Daryl Hall on teacher
Author: Daryl Hall“I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.” -Daryl Hall
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Wallace Stegner on teacher
Author: Wallace Stegner“A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.” -Wallace Stegner
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Mary Augusta Ward on teacher
Author: Mary Augusta Ward“The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.” -Mary Augusta Ward
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Margaret Spellings on teacher
Author: Margaret Spellings“I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.” -Margaret Spellings
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Jimmy Chamberlin on teacher
Author: Jimmy Chamberlin“I feel really good in the teacher role.” -Jimmy Chamberlin
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William Irwin Thompson on teacher
Author: William Irwin Thompson“The teacher of history’s work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.” -William Irwin Thompson
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Ben Vereen on teacher
Author: Ben Vereen“I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, ‘Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.’ So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it’s a whole different market – social media is so important.” -Ben Vereen
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Jeremy Irvine on teacher
Author: Jeremy Irvine“I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It’s a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me – I wanted that challenge.” -Jeremy Irvine
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Rory Bremner on teacher
Author: Rory Bremner“My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.” -Rory Bremner
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Peter Agre on teacher
Author: Peter Agre“Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.” -Peter Agre
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Catherine Helen Spence on teacher
Author: Catherine Helen Spence“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.” -Catherine Helen Spence
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Dana Spiotta on teacher
Author: Dana Spiotta“I don’t have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.” -Dana Spiotta
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Gordon Getty on teacher
Author: Gordon Getty“When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I’d composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I’m the same composer I was then.” -Gordon Getty
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Rosalind Wiseman on teacher
Author: Rosalind Wiseman“As a teacher myself I’ve been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn’t want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.” -Rosalind Wiseman
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Amartya Sen on teacher
Author: Amartya Sen“But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.” -Amartya Sen
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Mark Knopfler on teacher
Author: Mark Knopfler“There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.” -Mark Knopfler
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Jon Hamm on teacher
Author: Jon Hamm“I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can’t think of a profession I have more respect for.” -Jon Hamm
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Jamie Moyer on teacher
Author: Jamie Moyer“If you’re a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you’re considered a failure.” -Jamie Moyer
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Jonathan Shapiro on teacher
Author: Jonathan Shapiro“There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.” -Jonathan Shapiro
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Dakota Fanning on teacher
Author: Dakota Fanning“I’m home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.” -Dakota Fanning
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James S. Coleman on teacher
Author: James S. Coleman“Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.” -James S. Coleman
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Wendy Liebman on teacher
Author: Wendy Liebman“I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw ‘How to be a Stand-up Comedian,’ it resonated. I realized I’d rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.” -Wendy Liebman
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Big Sean on teacher
Author: Big Sean“When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don’t say that to brag, I just want to be an example.” -Big Sean