A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
- Ronald Reagan
I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.
- Lee Child
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
Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
- Clay Aiken
But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
- Clay Aiken
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
- Josef Albers
Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
- Mitch Albom
[A teacher] isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
- Paulo Coelho
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
- Paulo Coelho
The boys wore jeans, or tracksuits with big ticks on them as if their clothing had been marked by a teacher who valued, above all else, conformity.
- Monica Ali
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 Colbert
A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?
- Stephen Colbert
It was a denim jacket. With this cover in place, Mouse hastily got his pants back in order. Instead of a teacher, as he'd expected, the new kid, Beckett Taylor, had bestowed dignity upon him.
- Debra Anastasia
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
- Loni Anderson
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
- Loni Anderson
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you---and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
- Isaac Asimov
I don't like the way he looks at you."
My stomach lurched. "What do you mean? How does he look at me?"
"Like you're not a student and he's not a teacher.
- P C Cast
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
- Ann Bancroft
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
- Syd Barrett
The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a lot of kids said made him hard to understand, although to be fair some of these kids would have never understood algebra anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
- Elisabeth Rohm
Parents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher.
- John Steinbeck
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
- Alan Bennett
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
Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.
- Jim Benton
I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college, though, they sent me my draft notice, stuck me in officers training, and I ended up on the continent for twelve years. My life went by like a dream.
- 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
I'm certified as an instructor and I do teach courses at a cram school, but I'm not exactly a teacher. I write fiction, but I've never been published, so I'm not a writer yet, either." "You're nothing." Tengo nodded. "Exactly. For the moment, I'm nothing.
- Haruki Murakami
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
- Carla Bley
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
- Bodhidharma
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
I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.
- Peter Brimelow
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
- Tom Brown Jr
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
- Robert Frost
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.
- Conrad Burns
I've often heard it said a preacher
might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
- Gary Burton
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
I hope that I serve by being a teacher.
- Jenna Bush
Claire was struggling through last summer's diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon's head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.
- Rachel Caine
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
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
Bliss, I don't normally do things like that. But I was second-guessing everything about coming here, and you were everything I needed. I don't
know how many times I've stopped myself from coming over here and knocking on your door. And yes, seeing you with Cade was definitely motivation, but more than that... I
just like you, Bliss. As a teacher. As a person. As a guy. --Garrick
- Cora Carmack
My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.
- Steve Case
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
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
- Dave Chappelle
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
- Louis L Amour
I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?
- David Clement Davies
When I'm a teacher, I won't be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don't want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.
- Susane Colasanti
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
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
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
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
- Ann Curry
In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.
- Roald Dahl
A student: "I wonder why I did what I did, maybe it was an accident" A Teacher: "Everything is a mere accident. Be it, a love or friendship. We are born by an accident, we die by an accident, we study by an accident, and sometimes, we live by an accident. However, it is not we who perform these accidents. We are just like a remote control operated by unknown creature. But worry not; your heart makes happy accidents.
- Santosh Kalwar
I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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 what I can do.'
- Roddy Doyle
Words can't fix my life.
Words can't give me a family.
Words can't do jack.
You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
- Richard Dreyfuss
I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
- Christopher Durang
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
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said.
"DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT."
"I learned it from you," I told him.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.
- John Irving
Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.
- Ogwo David Emenike
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.
- Linda Evangelista
I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
- Dakota Fanning
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
- Edmond H Fischer
As she traveled down the lane between the rows of parked cars, she noticed a conspicuous absence of new or expensive vehicles. Teaching didn't pay well enough for any luxuries, and Hannah thought that was a shame. There was something really wrong with the system when a teacher could make more money flipping burgers at a fast-food chain.
- Joanne Fluke
I'm glad I was a teacher.
- John Wooden
In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first
- Gary L Francione
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.
- James Franco
People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.
- Doug E Fresh
My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
- David Friedman
Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
- Lady Gaga
I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
- James Galway
I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.
- Brad Garrett
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.
- Malcolm Gladwell
I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
- John Glover
The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
- Seth Godin
She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school and I've got to choose who I'm gonna save - a teacher or a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time.
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- Keith Gray
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
- Thom Gunn
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
- Marilyn Hacker
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
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
- Jane Haddam
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
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
- Oscar Hammerstein Ii
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
I'm a teacher!" he roared at Harry " a teacher, Potter! How dare yeh threaten ter break down my door!" " I'm sorry sir," said Harry, emphasizing the last word as he stowed his wand inside his robes. Hagrid looked stunned " Since when have yeh called me 'sir'?" " Since when have you called me 'Potter'?
- J K Rowling
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
- Gilbert Highet
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.
- Daniel H Hill
I always wanted to be a teacher.
- Nicky Hilton
I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.
- Roald Hoffmann
A teacher in class is
like a man in the woods at night with a powerful flashlight in his hand.
Wherever he turns his light, the creatures on whom it shines are aware of it,
and do not behave as they do in the dark. Thus the mere fact of his watching
their behavior changes it into something very different. Shine where be will,
he can never know very much of the night life of the woods.
- John Holt
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
I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
- Burl Ives
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
- C L R James
A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category gentlemen masquerading as beasts?
- Sabrina Jeffries
The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.
- Derrick Jensen
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
- C G Jung
I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.
- Peter Jurasik
I wanted to be a teacher.
- Kim Kardashian
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
- Helen Keller
I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.
- Marta Kristen
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
A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach.
- Tanya R Liverman
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
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
When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.
- Norman Maclean
I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
- Anne Sullivan Macy
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
- John Madden
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
- Joe Manchin
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Horace Mann
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
- Lily Tomlin
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
- Ziggy Marley
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
- Thurgood Marshall
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
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
- Frank Mccourt
I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
- Phil Mcgraw
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
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I've been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I've been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don't Mind.
- Terry Mcmillan
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
- Simon Van Der Meer
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
If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.
- Kel Mitchell
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
- Maria Montessori
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.
- Christopher Moore
You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.
- Alanna Ubach
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
- Bill Moyers
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
- Martin Mull
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
- Patricia Neal
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
- Howard Nemerov
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
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
I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
- Alex Oloughlin
A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.
- Ellen Ochoa
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
- Major R Owens
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
- Major R Owens
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 'can't.'
- Archie Panjabi
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
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth".
- Dan Rather
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
- Condoleezza Rice
I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.
- Kevin Richardson
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
I gave Paul a withering look but the truth was I was curious as hell. First of all, to find out what Sullivan wanted. And second, to see what a teacher's room looked like. I'd always sort of figured they came out during the day to teach classes and then got stored in shoe boxes under someone's bed until they were needed again. (James)
- Maggie Stiefvater
Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
- Doris Roberts
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
- Frederick William Robertson
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
I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
- Mathias Rust
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
- J D Salinger
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
- Jon Secada
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
- Amartya Sen
There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
- Jonathan Shapiro
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.
- Fulton J Sheen
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
I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.
- Andrew Shue
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
- Dan Simmons
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
- Vijay Singh
It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.
- John Singleton
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
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
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
- Wallace Stegner
If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.
- Richard Stengel
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
- Robert Sternberg
For a game, you don't need a teacher.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
- Bjarne Stroustrup
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
- Thomas Szasz
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
- Antonio Tabucchi
I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.
- Aida Turturro
There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.
- Paul Twitchell
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
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
- John Updike
I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
- David Foster Wallace
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
- Paul Wellstone
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
- Paul Wellstone
What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
- Ken Wilber
Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.
- Deborah Wiles
If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
- Dallas Willard
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
- Saul Williams
I have to be a teacher to my daughters.
- Carnie Wilson
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
- Woodrow Wilson
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
- Niklaus Wirth
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
- Niklaus Wirth
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star..
- Meg Wolitzer
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
- Stevie Wonder
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
- Henry Brooks Adams
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
- Ronald Reagan
I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.
- Lee Child
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
Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
- Clay Aiken
But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
- Clay Aiken
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
- Josef Albers
Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
- Mitch Albom
[A teacher] isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
- Paulo Coelho
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
- Paulo Coelho
The boys wore jeans, or tracksuits with big ticks on them as if their clothing had been marked by a teacher who valued, above all else, conformity.
- Monica Ali
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 Colbert
A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?
- Stephen Colbert
It was a denim jacket. With this cover in place, Mouse hastily got his pants back in order. Instead of a teacher, as he'd expected, the new kid, Beckett Taylor, had bestowed dignity upon him.
- Debra Anastasia
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
- Loni Anderson
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
- Loni Anderson
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you---and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
- Isaac Asimov
I don't like the way he looks at you."
My stomach lurched. "What do you mean? How does he look at me?"
"Like you're not a student and he's not a teacher.
- P C Cast
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
- Ann Bancroft
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
- Syd Barrett
The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a lot of kids said made him hard to understand, although to be fair some of these kids would have never understood algebra anyway.
- Dave Barry
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
You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
- Elisabeth Rohm
Parents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher.
- John Steinbeck
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
- Alan Bennett
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
Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.
- Jim Benton
I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college, though, they sent me my draft notice, stuck me in officers training, and I ended up on the continent for twelve years. My life went by like a dream.
- 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
I'm certified as an instructor and I do teach courses at a cram school, but I'm not exactly a teacher. I write fiction, but I've never been published, so I'm not a writer yet, either." "You're nothing." Tengo nodded. "Exactly. For the moment, I'm nothing.
- Haruki Murakami
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
- Carla Bley
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
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
- Bodhidharma
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
I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.
- Peter Brimelow
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
- Tom Brown Jr
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
- George Bernard Shaw
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
- Robert Frost
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.
- Conrad Burns
I've often heard it said a preacher
might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
- Gary Burton
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
I hope that I serve by being a teacher.
- Jenna Bush
Claire was struggling through last summer's diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon's head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.
- Rachel Caine
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
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
Bliss, I don't normally do things like that. But I was second-guessing everything about coming here, and you were everything I needed. I don't
know how many times I've stopped myself from coming over here and knocking on your door. And yes, seeing you with Cade was definitely motivation, but more than that... I
just like you, Bliss. As a teacher. As a person. As a guy. --Garrick
- Cora Carmack
My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.
- Steve Case
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
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
- Dave Chappelle
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
- Louis L Amour
I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?
- David Clement Davies
When I'm a teacher, I won't be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don't want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.
- Susane Colasanti
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
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
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
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
- Ann Curry
In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.
- Roald Dahl
A student: "I wonder why I did what I did, maybe it was an accident" A Teacher: "Everything is a mere accident. Be it, a love or friendship. We are born by an accident, we die by an accident, we study by an accident, and sometimes, we live by an accident. However, it is not we who perform these accidents. We are just like a remote control operated by unknown creature. But worry not; your heart makes happy accidents.
- Santosh Kalwar
I think Willim Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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 what I can do.'
- Roddy Doyle
Words can't fix my life.
Words can't give me a family.
Words can't do jack.
You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
- Richard Dreyfuss
I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
- Christopher Durang
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
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said.
"DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT."
"I learned it from you," I told him.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.
- John Irving
Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.
- Ogwo David Emenike
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.
- Linda Evangelista
I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
- Dakota Fanning
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
- Edmond H Fischer
As she traveled down the lane between the rows of parked cars, she noticed a conspicuous absence of new or expensive vehicles. Teaching didn't pay well enough for any luxuries, and Hannah thought that was a shame. There was something really wrong with the system when a teacher could make more money flipping burgers at a fast-food chain.
- Joanne Fluke
I'm glad I was a teacher.
- John Wooden
In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first
- Gary L Francione
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.
- James Franco
People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.
- Doug E Fresh
My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
- David Friedman
Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
- Lady Gaga
I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
- James Galway
I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.
- Brad Garrett
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.
- Malcolm Gladwell
I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
- John Glover
The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
- Seth Godin
She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school and I've got to choose who I'm gonna save - a teacher or a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time.
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- Keith Gray
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
- Thom Gunn
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
- Marilyn Hacker
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
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
- Jane Haddam
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
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
- Oscar Hammerstein Ii
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
I'm a teacher!" he roared at Harry " a teacher, Potter! How dare yeh threaten ter break down my door!" " I'm sorry sir," said Harry, emphasizing the last word as he stowed his wand inside his robes. Hagrid looked stunned " Since when have yeh called me 'sir'?" " Since when have you called me 'Potter'?
- J K Rowling
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
- Gilbert Highet
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.
- Daniel H Hill
I always wanted to be a teacher.
- Nicky Hilton
I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.
- Roald Hoffmann
A teacher in class is
like a man in the woods at night with a powerful flashlight in his hand.
Wherever he turns his light, the creatures on whom it shines are aware of it,
and do not behave as they do in the dark. Thus the mere fact of his watching
their behavior changes it into something very different. Shine where be will,
he can never know very much of the night life of the woods.
- John Holt
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
I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
- Burl Ives
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
- C L R James
A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category gentlemen masquerading as beasts?
- Sabrina Jeffries
The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.
- Derrick Jensen
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
- C G Jung
I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.
- Peter Jurasik
I wanted to be a teacher.
- Kim Kardashian
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
- Helen Keller
I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.
- Marta Kristen
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
A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach.
- Tanya R Liverman
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
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
When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.
- Norman Maclean
I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
- Anne Sullivan Macy
I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
- John Madden
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
- Joe Manchin
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Horace Mann
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
- Lily Tomlin
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
- Ziggy Marley
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
- Thurgood Marshall
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
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
- Frank Mccourt
I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
- Phil Mcgraw
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
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I've been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I've been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don't Mind.
- Terry Mcmillan
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
- Simon Van Der Meer
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
If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.
- Kel Mitchell
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
- Maria Montessori
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.
- Christopher Moore
You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.
- Alanna Ubach
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
- Bill Moyers
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
- Martin Mull
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
- Patricia Neal
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
- Howard Nemerov
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
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
I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
- Alex Oloughlin
A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.
- Ellen Ochoa
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
- Major R Owens
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
- Major R Owens
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 'can't.'
- Archie Panjabi
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
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth".
- Dan Rather
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
- Condoleezza Rice
I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.
- Kevin Richardson
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
I gave Paul a withering look but the truth was I was curious as hell. First of all, to find out what Sullivan wanted. And second, to see what a teacher's room looked like. I'd always sort of figured they came out during the day to teach classes and then got stored in shoe boxes under someone's bed until they were needed again. (James)
- Maggie Stiefvater
Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
- Doris Roberts
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
- Frederick William Robertson
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
I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
- Mathias Rust
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
- J D Salinger
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
- Jon Secada
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
- Amartya Sen
There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
- Jonathan Shapiro
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.
- Fulton J Sheen
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
I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.
- Andrew Shue
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
- Dan Simmons
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
- Vijay Singh
It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.
- John Singleton
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
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
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
- Wallace Stegner
If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.
- Richard Stengel
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
- Robert Sternberg
For a game, you don't need a teacher.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
- Bjarne Stroustrup
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
- Thomas Szasz
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
- Antonio Tabucchi
I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.
- Aida Turturro
There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.
- Paul Twitchell
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
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
- John Updike
I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
- David Foster Wallace
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
- Paul Wellstone
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
- Paul Wellstone
What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
- Ken Wilber
Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.
- Deborah Wiles
If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
- Dallas Willard
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
- Saul Williams
I have to be a teacher to my daughters.
- Carnie Wilson
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
- Woodrow Wilson
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
- Niklaus Wirth
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
- Niklaus Wirth
Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star..
- Meg Wolitzer
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
- Stevie Wonder
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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