- 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
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.
- Assisting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.
- Irresistible
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- Nov 07, 2020
A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My chemistry teacher wanted me to do chemistry, and my art teacher wanted me to do art. Fashion seemed like a good in-between - using your brain but being creative.
- Big Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had to pick one, and I felt much more confident in the arts than I did in chemistry. My big thing was that I actually wanted to be like Jacques Cousteau.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020