John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
John Lancaster Spalding
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
Imelda May
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
Madi Diaz
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
Saina Nehwal
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
Ian McShane
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Walter Dean Myers
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.
Martin Yan
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We’re the US Senate here to help people, and if we’re not helping people, we should go the fuck home.
Kirsten Gillibrand
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In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.
Blaise Pascal
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It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.
Colm Toibin
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The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
John Lancaster Spalding