513 private quotes tagged teacher

“You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.” — Charles Stanley

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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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“Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.” — Peter Brimelow

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“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.” — Gertrude Stein

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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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“There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.” — Audre Lorde

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“There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.” — Berenice Abbott

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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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“To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.” — William Hague

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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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“Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.” — Syd Barrett

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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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“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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“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.” — William Osler

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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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“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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“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.” — Eric Hoffer

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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