- Mind
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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
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a freshman at Yale, one teacher brought me up after class and said, 'You're trying to undermine my class.' And I thought to myself, 'Oh my God, I'm going to be kicked out of school on the first week.' Not only do I not have a sense of self, I don't even know what she's talking about. I don't even know how to undermine anything.
- Building Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
The building blocks of mathematical thinking are requisite for more advanced conceptualization. If a student is not ready to move on, then the teacher must take time to assist that learner.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.
- Demonstrating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
- Biggest Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020