teachers
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘teachers’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.” -Felix Adler
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“I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad’s restaurant in San Diego.” -Charisma Carpenter
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“My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn’t approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, ‘There’s no such thing as…
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“The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.” -Tucker Carlson
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“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.” -Seymour Papert
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“My first career was as a coach and a teacher.” -David Friedman
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“One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.” -Andrew Cohen
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“If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that’s what I did.” -Steve Guttenberg
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“What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.” -Simon Newcomb
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“I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.” -Sanford I. Weill
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“My father’s a preacher, my mother’s a teacher, thus I rhyme.” -Saul Williams
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“Usually, girls weren’t encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.” -Ellen Ochoa
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“I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, ‘Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?’ But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so…
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“If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of ‘Roll Out The Barrel,’ but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.” -Alan Sugar
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“If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.” -Oscar Hammerstein II
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“I’d never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.” -Andrew Shue
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“I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.” -Mike Judge
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“I don’t learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.” -Warren Zevon
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“I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He’s incredible. He’s got a lot of hard-earned experience.” -Skeet Ulrich
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“I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.” -Judy Collins
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“I’m sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.” -John Madden
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“As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.” -Marilyn Hacker
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“I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher – all in high school.” -Jennie Garth
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“If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you’re out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.” -Tim Gunn
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“Ask everyone whether they’re an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.” -Debra Messing
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“When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.” -David Coverdale
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“My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That’s what my parents called me. I also got ‘Teddy Ruxpin’ a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out ‘James Franco’ my junior year of high school, I didn’t correct her.”…
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“I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.” -Katarina Witt
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“In the ideal classroom, the teacher is either spending all of their time doing deep interventions with students on a one-on-one basis or facilitating true interactivity – labs, simulations, projects.” -Salman Khan
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“When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself – am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: ‘I am control of this and no one is telling me…
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“I’m the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys’ school in Sydney.” -Alex O’Loughlin
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“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that’s when I started to learn about the history of theater.” -Elizabeth Olsen
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“I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.” -Susan Hampshire
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“I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that’s the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.” -Elisabeth Shue
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“From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you’re in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.” -Mark Hoppus
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“If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.” -Laurieann Gibson
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“All I wanted was to be a university teacher.” -Jalal Talabani
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“I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.” -Vinny Guadagnino
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“My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master’s degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she’s a brilliant second-grade teacher. I’m in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.” -Idina Menzel
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“When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.” -Beverly Cleary
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“I think my parents were happy that I’d gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, ‘Well if acting doesn’t work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.’ Fortunately, the acting worked out.” -Derek Jacobi
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“Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.” -Ann Richards
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“But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn’t counting on money to much.” -Clay Aiken
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“As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.” -Jenna Bush
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“In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.” -Trevor Nunn
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“We love the precepts for the teacher’s sake.” -George Farquhar
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“It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.” -Josef Albers
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“I was a writer. I just wasn’t a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I’d be a better actor than I would a playwright.” -Liev Schreiber
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“I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes…
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“I was an elementary school teacher.” -Luciano Pavarotti
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“I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I’m not used to it. Most Bolivians don’t…
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“A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.” -Bill Bowerman
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“I have always believed that 98% of a student’s progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.” -John Philip Sousa
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“But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.” -Buddy Rich
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“Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.” -Huston Smith
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“No, I’m happy to go on living the life I’ve chosen. I’m a university teacher and I like my job.” -Antonio Tabucchi
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“I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone’s going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down… Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.” -Garrett Hedlund
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“When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.” -Norman MacCaig
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“I’ve never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I’m a cooking teacher.” -Martin Yan
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“I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.” -Karlie Kloss
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“When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.” -Kazuo Ishiguro
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“The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.” -Harold Bloom
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“When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.” -Brian Ferneyhough
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“NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.” -Christa McAuliffe
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“I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn’t like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.” -Stephen…
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“There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.” -Allan Bloom
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“I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.” -George Osborne
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“In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn’t know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating…
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“No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.” -Renee Fleming
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“I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.” -Anthony Holden
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“A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell’s Soup kid.” -Kate Clinton
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“I was sent to a nice Church of England girls’ school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary – prior to marriage.” -Kate Adie
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“I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.” -Michael Symon
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“It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.” -Michael Morpurgo
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“You never know what’s going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.” -Tony Dungy
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“The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. ‘Bridesmaids’ is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as ‘Bad Teacher.’” -Chris Pratt
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“America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.” -Mikhail Gorbachev
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“I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.” -Jet Li
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“I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.” -Mark Ruffalo
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“I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn’t really know how to successfully get me going.” -Miroslav Vitous
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“I would probably be a teacher if I weren’t a comedian.” -Brad Garrett
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“My brother’s a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.” -Dominic Monaghan
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“Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.” -Ziggy Marley
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“There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child’s first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.” -Tom…
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“Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.” -Tom Brown, Jr.
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“I’d like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.” -Alan Shepard
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“Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.” -Nina Simone
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“I’ve noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn’t going to do anyway so here’s something more positive. I’m going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.” -Arthur Smith
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“Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done.” -Katey Sagal
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“I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.” -Anna Deavere Smith
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“My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.” -Condoleezza Rice
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“My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.” -Dave Grohl
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“I claim Dickens as a mentor. He’s my teacher. He’s one of my driving forces.” -Anne Rice
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“My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.” -Steven Chu
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“It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.” -Quintilian
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“You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.” -Darrell Royal
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“I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed – no, I didn’t fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn’t try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.” -Nathan Fillion
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“A good teacher is a determined person.” -Gilbert Highet
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“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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“My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.” -Gordon Ramsay
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“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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“They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.” -Kevin Mitnick
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“He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was – I wouldn’t say the ‘guru’ – but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.” -Shimon Peres
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“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?” -Diogenes of Sinope
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“As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don’t really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“I’m like a really goofy home ec teacher.” -Alton Brown
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“My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.” -Sloane Crosley
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“Oh, stuff the critics. I don’t care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn’t brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to…
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“My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that’s not realistic.” -Sarah Jessica Parker
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“I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.” -Dan Savage
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“I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl’s ‘James and the Giant Peach’.” -Dave Eggers
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“I have to be a teacher to my daughters.” -Carnie Wilson
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“A few years back, when my style was ‘punk grandma,’ I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more ‘1980s substitute teacher gone wild.’” -Beth Ditto
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“My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.” -David Soul
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“The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.” -James Cash Penney
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“I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word ‘existentialism.’” -Craig Ferguson
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“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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“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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“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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“Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.” -John Updike
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.” -Rosa Luxemburg
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“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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“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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“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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“My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.” -Gus Van Sant
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher’s instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.” -Xun Zi
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“There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” -Flannery O’Connor
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“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” -Arthur Koestler
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“A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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“Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.” -Jeb Bush
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“Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.” -Mary Catherine Bateson
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“Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.” -Leslie Fiedler
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“Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.” -Godfrey Reggio
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“I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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“Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.” -Elizabeth Hardwick
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“A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions.” -Martin H. Fischer
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“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
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“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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“If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?” -Paul Wellstone
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“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.” -Maria Montessori
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“A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt ‘Don’t bother me – I’ve got important work to do.’” -Daniel Goleman
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“As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.” -Max Beerbohm
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“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.” -Chinua Achebe
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“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.” -William Osler
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“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” -Eliphas Levi
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“I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.” -Liam Neeson
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“For whatever reason, I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.” -Sally Ride
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“I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.” -Bobby Knight
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“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”…
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“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.” -A. N. Wilson
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“I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.” -Carl Rogers
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“To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.” -Joseph Conrad
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“While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.” -Samuel Dash
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“The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” -Horace Mann
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“Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.” -Temple Grandin
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“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.” -Amos Bronson Alcott
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“I think once you’re in the public eye, whether you’re a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you’re automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.” -Talib Kweli
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“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.” -Jack Welch
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“Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.” -Shahrukh Khan
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“The single most important thing in a child’s performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.” -Michael Gove
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“In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, ‘Me? You’ve got to be joking!’ I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.” -Danica McKellar
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