- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.
- Nov 07, 2020
To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.
- Arts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is an actress. My granddad was a cameraman. They would've been surprised if I wanted to be a dentist or something like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made video art for quite a long time, and I made this video covering myself in burgers and dancing to Major Lazer and doing covers of Britney Spears songs... I can't remember how I got there, but my teacher said he'd have to fail me because it had mild nudity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
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- Nov 07, 2020