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John Mellencamp on teacher
Author: John Mellencamp“Do I think it’s OK to fight authority as long as you’re only talking about the high school teacher? No.” -John Mellencamp
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Gordon Ramsay on teacher
Author: Gordon Ramsay“My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.” -Gordon Ramsay
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Sidney Hook on teacher
Author: Sidney Hook“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” -Sidney Hook
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Gilbert Highet on teacher
Author: Gilbert Highet“A good teacher is a determined person.” -Gilbert Highet
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Maya Lin on teacher
Author: Maya Lin“I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.” -Maya Lin
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Haruki Murakami on teacher
Author: Haruki Murakami“I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.” -Haruki Murakami
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Jean Rostand on teacher
Author: Jean Rostand“It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.” -Jean Rostand
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Robert Duvall on teacher
Author: Robert Duvall“I’ve always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it’s like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That’s the actor’s craft – using yourself to create a character.” -Robert Duvall
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Gus Van Sant on teacher
Author: Gus Van Sant“My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.” -Gus Van Sant
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Jonathan Kozol on teacher
Author: Jonathan Kozol“The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.” -Jonathan…
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Jonathan Sacks on teacher
Author: Jonathan Sacks“If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.” -Jonathan Sacks
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Harlan Coben on teacher
Author: Harlan Coben“Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It’s much too strict, but it’s a hell of a teacher.” -Harlan Coben
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Rosa Luxemburg on teacher
Author: Rosa Luxemburg“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.” -Rosa Luxemburg
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Vin Diesel on teacher
Author: Vin Diesel“I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and…
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A. C. Benson on teacher
Author: A. C. Benson“I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.” -A. C. Benson
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Cat Cora on teacher
Author: Cat Cora“My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.” -Cat Cora
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Yoko Ono on teacher
Author: Yoko Ono“Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.” -Yoko Ono
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John Jay Chapman on teacher
Author: John Jay Chapman“Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.” -John Jay Chapman
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John Updike on teacher
Author: John Updike“Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.” -John Updike
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Flip Wilson on teacher
Author: Flip Wilson“My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.” -Flip Wilson
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Mike Krzyzewski on teacher
Author: Mike Krzyzewski“My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that’s still what I do: teach.” -Mike Krzyzewski
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William Glasser on teacher
Author: William Glasser“Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.” -William Glasser
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Calvin Trillin on teacher
Author: Calvin Trillin“I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.” -Calvin Trillin
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Eddie Van Halen on teacher
Author: Eddie Van Halen“I’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.” -Eddie Van Halen