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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
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a weird stage of my life, to leave Simon & Garfunkel at the height of our success and become a math teacher. I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions, and they would say, 'What were the Beatles like?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there's no alternative to honesty and hard work.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I just wandered into a dance class full of girls, and that was it. I thought, 'Hang on! I'll have a bit of this.' I went back a week later and got dragged up by the teacher. It wasn't a massive calling.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between the arts and the sciences. We had bookshelves full of novels, and she also had Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold and Carl Sagan.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020