- People
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
- Greenwich Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a football coach? Why can't I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can't do. So just give us a chance.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.
- Commenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in an acting class, you always feel like, you know, you're insecure, a lot of ways, when the teacher is commenting on your performance.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn't do the children a disservice.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a happy teacher, but I also wasn't an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a teacher was great, but it wasn't what I wanted to do, so it was ultimately crushing.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea that I needed to be better than everybody else.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
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- Nov 07, 2020