Teacher Quotes
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The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.
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I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.
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I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
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I wanted to be a teacher.
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I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco.'
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I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.
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If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
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I wanted to be the Great Liberating Teacher, to raise them from their knees after days of drudgery in office and factories, to help them cast off their shackles, to lead them to the mountaintop, to breathe the air of freedom. Once their minds were clear of cant, they’d see me as a savior.
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adversity is so rough a teacher!
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The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was.
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When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
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I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
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Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans.
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A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
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Working to my potential.' It's like every teacher I have has some sort of manual to use when talking to me. She finished with, 'You have so much going for you,' which was the dumbest thing anyone, even Laurie, has ever said to me.
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The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
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I always feel the audience is my best teacher.
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You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.
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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.
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If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.
