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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 on Teacher
- A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.
- Michael Nutter on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
- Kate Clinton on Teacher
- A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
- Gertrude Jekyll on Teacher
- A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
- Brad Henry on Teacher
- A good teacher is a determined person.
- Gilbert Highet on Teacher
- A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
- Eliphas Levi on Teacher
- A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions.
- Martin H. Fischer on Teacher
- A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
- John Henrik Clarke on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
- Patricia Neal on Teacher
- A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
- W. H. Auden on Teacher
- A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
- Chris Christie on Teacher
- A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
- Henny Youngman on Teacher
- A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Adams on Teacher
- A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
- Wallace Stegner on Teacher
- A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
- Howard Nemerov on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
- Gilbert Highet on Teacher
- A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
- Thomas Szasz on Teacher
- A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Horace Mann on Teacher
- A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Teacher
- A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
- Amos Bronson Alcott on Teacher
- A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
- Howard Crosby on Teacher
- Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.
- Will Hermes on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
- Baltasar Gracian on Teacher
- After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Albert Camus on Teacher
- After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
- Grazia Deledda on Teacher
- All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
- Jalal Talabani on Teacher
- Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
- Toru Takemitsu on Teacher
- America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
- Mikhail Gorbachev on Teacher
- Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
- Bainbridge Colby on Teacher
- And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.
- Dave Winfield on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
- As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.
- As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
- Bill Moyers on Teacher
- As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.
- Joyce Carol Oates on Teacher
- As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.
- Rosalind Wiseman on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.
- Kerry Healey on Teacher
- 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 on Teacher
- At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
- Ama Ata Aidoo on Teacher
- Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.
- Sarah Sutton on Teacher
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