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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 on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
- Valerie Simpson on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.
- Clay Aiken on Teacher
- But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
- Roy Barnes on Teacher
- But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
- Amartya Sen on Teacher
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
- Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
- George Farquhar on Teacher
- 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 Owens on Teacher
- Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
- William Wordsworth on Teacher
- Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
- Arthur Koestler on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
- Brian Sandoval on Teacher
- Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
- Vladimir Nabokov on Teacher
- Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
- John Mellencamp on Teacher
- Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
- Solomon Ortiz on Teacher
- Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.
- Jeffrey Donovan on Teacher
- Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
- 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.
- Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.
- Shinichi Suzuki on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.
- Edward Gibbon on Teacher
- Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
- John Updike on Teacher
- Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
- William Glasser on Teacher
- Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
- Oscar Wilde on Teacher
- Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
- Doris Roberts on Teacher
- Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
- Sidney Hook on Teacher
- Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.
- Jeanine Basinger on Teacher
- Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'Connor on Teacher
- Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
- Tom Brown, Jr. on Teacher
- Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
- Warren G. Bennis on Teacher
- Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
- Minna Antrim on Teacher
- Experience is a great teacher.
- John Legend on Teacher
- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
- Vernon Law on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- Experience is the teacher of all things.
- Julius Caesar on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
- Eugen Herrigel on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
- Mary Catherine Bateson on Teacher
- Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Teacher
- Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
- Keith Emerson on Teacher
- First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'
- Miles Teller on Teacher
- Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.
- Peter Agre on Teacher
- For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'
- Betty Buckley on Teacher
- For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
- Heidi Klum on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
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