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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the Seventies; my dad is an aeronautical engineer and my mum was an English and arts teacher and for a while my family had to exist on one salary.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum was an art teacher, so we used to have fantastic dressing-up costumes when we were little.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My education was seeing and touching the world. I would read about the history of a castle with my mother - who was a teacher, so she home-schooled me - and then she would take me to the castle, and we would climb on it, and then I'd write creatively about it that night.
- Flourishes
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- Nov 07, 2020