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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
- Good Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a very good teacher.
- Nov 07, 2020
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a business owner. I'm a teacher. I think Justin's actually kind of plain, kind of nerdy. But when I morph into Alyssa, I'm like this... Well, this creature, everything that Justin couldn't be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest gift I've ever received is being a teacher.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and a little first-grader stood up, and he said, 'I can explain segregation,' and proceeded to explain all the scenes from 'Hidden Figures.' And I died because that's everything.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
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- Nov 07, 2020