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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Creative Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is a better teacher than duty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom was a school teacher, and she had to be at work at 7:30 every morning. So Dad was in charge of us three kids around the breakfast table. He always made it creative: he did the bananas with the smiley face and the eyes with peanut butter on top, made us drink grapefruit every morning even though we had to do it holding our noses.
- Nov 07, 2020
For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.
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- Nov 07, 2020