Teacher Quotes
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I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.
Ned Vizzini
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I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.
Eric Stonestreet
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Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
Sharon Draper
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Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
Willard Scott
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The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.
Nathan M. Pusey
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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
Adora Svitak
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There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.
Dana Goldstein
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A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
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I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
Ezra Furman
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I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.
Miranda Otto
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Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.
Herbert Spencer
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Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.
Richard Feynman
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Joe Wright was almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.
Saoirse Ronan
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I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.
Eric Mazur
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One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular people like bankers and teachers, and I actually try to steer our talk away from my work when I get together with them.
Chang-Rae Lee
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A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.
Paul Goodman
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God does not deal our karma to us as a punishment. Karma is a manifestation of an impersonal law as well as a personal one. The purpose of our bearing our karma is that karma is our teacher. We must learn the lessons of how and why we misused the energy of life. Until that day comes when we recognize the Law of God as a Law of Love, we will probably encounter difficulties. But if we will only hasten that day's coming into our own life, we will recognize that karma is actually grace and beauty and joy. And love and awareness and hope! -EM
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
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Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.
Ernest Gaines
