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- Nov 07, 2020
Teacher Quotes
On teaching, mentorship, and lasting impact.
Alongside a personal memory of teaching mythology in college, several quotes cite research on how a single effective teacher changes a student's odds of finishing school. For lighter material, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn't know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The director's job is like a teacher's, and I feel a teacher should not have any doubts about the subject.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
In middle school, I had the best math teacher I've ever had, and he was deaf... and I felt inspired by him. I knew from then on that I wanted to be a math teacher.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was chastised for writing several obituaries for Malcolm X, exploring different aspects of his writing. One teacher in particular told me, didn't I think I was beating a dead horse? and dismissively threw my paper on my desk.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite a shy kid, but I was quite funny at school, and I was really into art. In our class, there were two of us who were good at drawing, and my teacher was like, 'He's going to make a wonderful artist one day, and Noel can make everyone laugh.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a teacher once.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
- Pet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.
- Nov 07, 2020