Henry Rollins: I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will...

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Quote: I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.
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Author:
Michael Bennet
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Teacher

I believe there's not...

Quote: A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.
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Marilyn Ferguson
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Teacher

A self-defined challenge is...

Quote: My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.
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James D. Watson
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Teacher

My parents made it...

Quote: I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
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Anna Deavere Smith
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Teacher

I was a mimic...

Quote: I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.
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Temple Grandin
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Teacher

I had people in...

Quote: If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
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James Collins
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Teacher

If I had a...

Quote: To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
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Joseph Conrad
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Teacher

To a teacher of...

Quote: As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.
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Anne Wojcicki
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Teacher

As a child, I...

Quote: Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future.
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Virginia Postrel
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Teacher

Society needs both parents...

Quote: If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.
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Richard Dreyfuss
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Teacher

If I wasn't an...

Quote: The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.
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Chris Pratt
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Teacher

The American audience has...

Quote: I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you.
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Nina Simone
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Teacher

I have to be...

Quote: My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
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Jeff Bridges
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Teacher

My brother's my teacher,...

Quote: I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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A. N. Wilson
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Teacher

I should prefer to...

Quote: A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
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David Bergen
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Teacher

A mentor, a 'teacher,'...

Quote: When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.
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Chrystia Freeland
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Teacher

When I was a...

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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Randi Weingarten
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Teacher

Throughout my career as...

Quote: I don't even need to know - if you have something to prove to your old boss or your dad or your third grade teacher or yourself, it doesn't matter. You need that hustle and that fire, and I don't care where it comes from.
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Author:
Emily Weiss
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I don't even need...

Quote: About me - I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do.
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Miranda Hart
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About me - I...

Quote: There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.
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Thomas Friedman
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Teacher

There's no question that...

Quote: Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
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George Steiner
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Teacher

Given my age, I...

Quote: Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
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Edward Gibbon
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Every man who rises...

Quote: I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
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Elizabeth Olsen
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I had a great...

Quote: I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.
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Michael Symon
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I love doing demonstrations....

Quote: But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
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Roy Barnes
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But the fact is,...

Quote: It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.
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Robert Hutchins
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It must be remembered...

Quote: I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
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Chuck Schumer
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I think teaching should...

Quote: If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
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Wendy Kopp
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If we freed up...

Quote: I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
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Mathias Rust
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Teacher

I had one companion....

Quote: I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.
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Annie Potts
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Teacher

I have taught some...

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