Channing Tatum: I've never studied the classics, but I'd like...

Quote	I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like jazz. Once you learn to play anything, you can break the form and go and do something even bigger. Copy
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Quote: A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
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A good teacher, like...

Quote: Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Above all things I...

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The drama teacher that...

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I went to Catholic...

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I know I have...

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I wanted to be...

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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Quote: Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.
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Quote: You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
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Quote: When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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Quote: So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
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Quote: Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.
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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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