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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
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.
- Beautiful Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home.
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- Nov 07, 2020