Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quentin Blake

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Marjorie Brody

I think when the student's ready, the teacher appears.

Rita Ora

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

Anton LaVey

A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richard P. Feynman

Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naive ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

Richard P. Feynman

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

Richard P. Feynman

I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

Kathleen Spillers

He was able to go into the school and feel very comfortable. But they didn't feel very comfortable with him.

Elizabeth Miller

He can't wait to get there in the afternoon. He was upset having to go to school.

Grant Hill

I was on the board at my children's school in Phoenix: I was Mr. Daddy Daycare.

Teju Cole

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Larry Bird

When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

Margie Feinberg

He should have called the school if there was a problem.

Diane Harris

I think it's, like, cool. I wish the whole school was like this.

Jason Thomas

I think it's kind of early. We need our time to have a break, you know. Too much school is not good.

Jason Maxiell

It hurts. He'll be OK. It makes me not want to go back to the school.

Steve Ferguson

What we want to do is make sure that students who come to Bloomington are already prepared.

Michael Gargano

I thought the students were very respectful, and I'm very appreciative of their respect,

John Small

I think a lot of students don't want to give up their high-school experience. They are involved, entrenched in activities. But we tend to get some pretty high-performing students who don't have a lot of ties.

Heather Hillman

I think it was what we were expecting. I don't think it was what students were expecting.

William Saroyan

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

Vincent Schiavelli

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

Wayne Dyer

BE A STUDENT BY STAYING OPEN AND WILLING TO LEARN FROM EVERYONE AND ANYONE.

Tyra Banks

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

Robertson Davies

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.