Teacher Quotes

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

James S. Coleman
- Teacher
I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.

Tyler Posey
- School
- High
- Spanish

I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.

E. J. Hughes
- Important
- Artist
- Teacher
A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.

Marilyn Ferguson
- Challenge
- Teacher
My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.

Tad Devine
- Up
- Children
- School
I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.

John Corey Whaley
- May
- Past
- Teacher
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

David Puttnam
- World
- Education
- Teacher
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

Elliott Abrams
- Up
- School
- Family