Quotes about teacher
teacher offering challenges
Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge. Cheryl Richardson
teacher dad heart
I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego. Charisma Carpenter
teacher true-friend talking
Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose a friend," I said. "Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." I nodded. "Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend." "I like him a lot, abba." "No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend. Chaim Potok
teacher calling effective-teacher
...being an effective teacher is a high calling. Charlie Munger
teacher drinking school
I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars. You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking alcohol in the closet and, similarly, you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example. Charlie Munger
teacher school son
My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable. Charles Mingus
teacher may fool
Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers. William Shakespeare
teacher thinking play
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play. Buddy Rich
teacher growing-up names
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me." Cary Fukunaga
teacher retirement math
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
teacher heart understanding
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. Carl Jung
teacher math answers
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. Calvin Trillin
teacher people way
I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire. Diego Luna
teacher jobs school
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods. Dennis Kucinich
teacher book gay
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc. Edmund White
teacher book humanity
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. Barbara Tuchman
teacher book sea
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. Barbara Tuchman
teacher giving taught
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do. Betty Buckley
teacher men years
Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert. Betty Buckley
teacher confused kids
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?' Bill Gates
teacher retirement literature
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. Charles Kuralt
teacher impact trying
I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me. Billy Joel
teacher succeed students
A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed. Bill Parcells
teacher book reading
If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book. Beverly Cleary
teacher retirement vocabulary
Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way. Betty White
teacher school cinema
Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema. Bernardo Bertolucci
teacher suffering lessons
Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson. Bernie Mac
teacher jesus children
Let us instill into the hearts of our children the love of freedom. Teach them that to be free is as precious as life itself. Fight every influence - Socialist, communist, whatever it may be - that would deprive an American citizen of the liberty vouchsafed by the Constitution. Liberty is truth. In truth we find liberty. You teachers, feel it in your hearts; instill it into the hearts of these precious children. May the Church of Jesus Christ ever stand true to the ideals of freedom. David O. McKay
teacher school math
If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting. Colin Firth
teacher strong powerful
Suppose... the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what? .... Are we strong enough to refute the party line and listen deep, listen true to the body as a powerful and holy being? Clarissa Pinkola Estes