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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always taken apart calculators and anything I can get my hands on when I was younger. When I was around 12 - like, 6th grade - my parents always had around Mac computers because my mom is a teacher. So I'd always be playing around with all the crazy applications and making banners and printing things out and always into graphic design.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020