John Krasinski: I wanted to be an English teacher. I...

Quote	I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done. Copy
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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: Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
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Japanese Proverb
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Quote: During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
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Sal Albanese
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Quote: There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.
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John F. Kennedy
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There is an old...

Quote: Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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Adversity is a great...

Quote: I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Walter Dean Myers
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Quote: Experience is a great teacher.
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John Legend
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Experience is a great...

Quote: There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
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Pat Conroy
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There's no word in...

Quote: My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages long, and we bound it and colored the front. And she wrote on mine, 'I can't wait till your real novel comes out. Give me a call.
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Andrew Sean Greer
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My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs....

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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I had people in...

Quote: What greater joy can a teacher feel than to witness a child’s success?
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Michelle L. Graham
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What greater joy can...

Quote: I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when she'd say 'Ulysses' or something, I'd run off to the library to check out a copy, eager to attempt the most difficult mountain.
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Stephen Hough
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I remember, in school...

Quote: I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
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Paul O'Grady
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I enjoyed school -...

Quote: When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
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Charles Kuralt
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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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Harvey Keitel
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Quote: In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
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Robert Sternberg
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In other words, if...

Quote: Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
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Keith Emerson
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Quote: My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.
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Sarah Jessica Parker
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Quote: I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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Taron Egerton
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I'm into books -...

Quote: Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.
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Temple Grandin
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Research is starting to...

Quote: I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
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Travis Barker
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I'm a freak, everything...

Quote: I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.
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George Foreman
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I remember in school...

Quote: My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.
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Joshua Bell
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Quote: I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.
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Martha Stewart
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Quote: The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
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Anne Sullivan
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The processes of teaching...

Quote: I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had have listened to those people telling me that, I might have gone down the route of a teacher. But I was never really going to do that.
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Colin Morgan
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Quote: A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.
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Kirsten Dunst
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Quote: Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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Harlan Coben
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Quote: When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.
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Lorrie Moore
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Quote: I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if there were ten minutes to lunch, and the teacher was done with the lesson, he'd say, 'Okay, Leo, get up there and do something.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
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I did imitations of...

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