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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
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there's, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don't pay attention until it's a big name. And we don't pay attention 'til it's a big celebrity.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a product of an amalgamation of different teachers. If it was just one teacher, even just my father, I would be half the player that I am today.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
- Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020