513 private quotes tagged teacher

“The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.” — H. G. Wells

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“Love is a better teacher than duty.” — Albert Einstein

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“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” — Khalil Gibran

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“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.” — Confucius

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“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“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

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“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.” — Helen Keller

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“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.” — Woody Allen

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“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” — Oscar Wilde

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“A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.” — James S. Coleman

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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” — Aristotle

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“My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.” — Ian McShane

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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 dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.” — Mike Shinoda

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“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.” — Beau Bridges

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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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“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

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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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“If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.” — Elaine MacDonald

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“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” — Denis Waitley

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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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“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.” — Philip Wylie

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“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.” — Steve Harvey

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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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