Teacher Quotes
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We are learning from our history and are looking it right in the eye and we went after this game. There's no nervousness on our part. We went after the New York Rangers in their own barn and almost pulled it off, i said to them all year defeat is not your undertaker and should be your teacher ... you’re going to see the Washington Capitals back here again.
Barry Trotz
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I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.
Megan Park
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You don't want one teacher going up against another because money's going to be out there.
Luke Ford
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In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life.
Lynn Nottage
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As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.
Jimmy Smits
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My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.
Barack Obama
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We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
Elliot W. Eisner
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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.
William James
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It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.
Vincent Rodriguez III
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A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.
Elizabeth Hay
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.
Daniel Defoe
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Many people avoid talking about death, but it never bothered me. The principal of my high school was an excellent teacher. One day he was writing on the blackboard when he suddenly turned around and said 'Life is a great adventure and death is the greatest adventure of all,' then went back to the board. I have never feared death since then.
Kathryn Tucker Windham
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A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
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The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.
Alan Chadwick
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I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.
Sela Ward
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It sends a bad message to kids. If you don't have a suit when you go to school, is the teacher going to think you're a bad kid?
Allen Iverson
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I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support kids to really get out there and work hard in their communities. But I also think that we need poets in our country to inspire.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
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I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.
Tyler Oakley
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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great
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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Hufstedler
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Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.
William Shakespeare
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It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.
William C. Menninger
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Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
Kevin James