Teacher Quotes
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Your worst enemy is your best teacher.
Gautama Buddha
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Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
Thomas Sowell
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
Xun Kuang
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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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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
Owain Yeoman
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The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.
Lev Vygotsky
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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney
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Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
Andy Rooney
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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
Nathan Fielder
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Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
Maggie Gallagher
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I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.
Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
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My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.
Ethan Canin
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There are some folks at the teacher's union who aren't big fans of mine, in part, because I have been open and want to make sure everybody is sitting at the table as we talk about education.
Betsy Hodges
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I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
Bernard Beckett
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Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.
Ricky Martin
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I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
Burl Ives
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
Lance Burton
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A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.
Bill Gates
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I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
Damon Lindelof
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
Ed O'Neill
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Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Shah Rukh Khan