513 private quotes tagged teacher

“This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“History is Philosophy teaching by example.” — Thucydides

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“Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.” — Joe Baca

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“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.” — Harry Callahan

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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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“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.” — Rosa Luxemburg

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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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“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” — Lily Tomlin

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“Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.” — Danica McKellar

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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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“I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.” — Alton Brown

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“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“I hope that I serve by being a teacher.” — Jenna Bush

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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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“Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.” — David E. Kelley

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“I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.” — Natasha Calis

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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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“Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.” — Giorgio Vasari

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“This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.” — William Glasser

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“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.” — Gilbert Highet

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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 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

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“Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.” — Vijay Singh

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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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“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.” — Maria Montessori

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