- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into performing. She got me into touring with an educational play called 'The Inner Circle' along with Pedro Zamora from MTV's 'The Real World.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never took a path that was the usual path for someone in my generation. A lot of the women who I went to school with, in those days, it was still the track of becoming a teacher, becoming a nurse. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but I didn't go down that path.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support kids to really get out there and work hard in their communities. But I also think that we need poets in our country to inspire.
- Nov 07, 2020
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
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- Nov 07, 2020