Terrance Hayes: I became a poet in Pittsburgh. When I...

Quote	I became a poet in Pittsburgh. When I lived in the South, I was a basketball player and primarily a jock. An English teacher essentially suggested that I send the poems that I'd been writing - really just for him - to a few programs, so that when I wound up in Pittsburgh, it's where I figured out that I could actually be a poet. Copy
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Quote: The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had during the entire time of his or her existence and brings into the classroom. A teacher concerned with developing humans affects the students quite differently from a teacher who never thinks about such things.
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Rudolf Steiner
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Teacher

The main difference in...

Quote: Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.
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Takashi Murakami
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Teacher

Manga uses Japanese traditional...

Quote: I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
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Author:
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Teacher

I worked as a...

Quote: Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
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Author:
Harvey Keitel
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Teacher

Then I heard this...

Quote: I do my schooling through an independent study program where I am able to do all my work at home, and then every two weeks, I meet with my teacher and turn in my work. When I am on set, I work with a studio teacher, and we do a mandatory three hours of school a day.
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Author:
Raymond Ochoa
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Teacher

I do my schooling...

Quote: There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.
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Author:
Thomas Friedman
Category:
Teacher

There is nothing more...

Quote: Be all that you can be. Find your future--as a teacher.
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Author:
Madeline Fuchs Holzer
Category:
Teacher

Be all that you...

Quote: I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.
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Author:
Jenn Proske
Category:
Teacher

I worked in theater...

Quote: I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
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Author:
James Galway
Category:
Teacher

I think it is...

Quote: I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you're singing. So be true to your vowels.
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Author:
Julie Andrews
Category:
Teacher

I had a teacher...

Quote: Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.
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Author:
Randi Weingarten
Category:
Teacher

Throughout my career as...

Quote: None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
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Author:
Thurgood Marshall
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Teacher

None of us got...

Quote: A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
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Author:
Gilbert Highet
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A teacher must believe...

Quote: We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
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Author:
Phyllis Diller
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Teacher

We spend the first...

Quote: There've been times I felt like, 'I don't know if I want to do this.' That maybe I should go back to school and become a special-education teacher. But I love entertaining.
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Author:
Tiffany Haddish
Category:
Teacher

There've been times I...

Quote: If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.
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Author:
Dennis Haysbert
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Teacher

If I weren't an...

Quote: There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.
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Author:
Paul Twitchell
Category:
Teacher

There is no teacher,...

Quote: It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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Author:
Henri Frederic Amiel
Category:
Teacher

It is by teaching...

Quote: There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
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Author:
David Puttnam
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Teacher

There is no education...

Quote: Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
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Sidney Hook
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Everyone who remembers his...

Quote: I had an amazing teacher, who was Burmese, and she was living in Paris at the time, and she is one of very few who doesn't actually receive a credit in the film because she still has family over there.
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Author:
Michelle Yeoh
Category:
Teacher

I had an amazing...

Quote: I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
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Author:
Quentin Blake
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Teacher

I'm trained as a...

Quote: A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
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Author:
Jacqueline Bisset
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Teacher

A Latin teacher told...

Quote: Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honor than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensured a good life.
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Author:
Aristotle
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Teacher

Teachers, who educate children,...

Quote: I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
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Author:
Stephen Mangan
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Teacher

I had an inspirational...

Quote: The best teacher is an entertainer.
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Author:
Bob Keeshan
Category:
Teacher

The best teacher is...

Quote: Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.
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Author:
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Category:
Teacher

Raphael Saadiq said to...

Quote: I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
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Author:
Carl Rogers
Category:
Teacher

I believe that the...

Quote: The need for imagination, as a sense of truth, and as a feeling of responsibility — these are the three forces which are the very nerve of education.
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Author:
Rudolf Steiner
Category:
Teacher

The need for imagination,...

Quote: I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.
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Rick Riordan
Category:
Teacher

I loved the idea...

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