- Great Teacher
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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
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
- English Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.
- Grandmothers
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- Nov 07, 2020