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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
- Goal
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.
- Nov 07, 2020
I used to win at school, and some teacher said to me, 'Why don't you take up running like your sisters?'
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'guru' is very loaded, so I would never refer to myself that way. I see myself as a teacher.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
- Nov 07, 2020