Harold Pinter: No one wanted me to be a conscientious...

Quote	No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone. Copy
Author	Harold Pinter
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Quote: Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.
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Severo Ochoa
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Teacher

Among the great names...

Quote: In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there's no alternative to honesty and hard work.
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Anupam Kher
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In every role that...

Quote: I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.
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Andy Andrews
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I am a teacher...

Quote: The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
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Mark Van Doren
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Teacher

The art of teaching...

Quote: I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
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Temple Grandin
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I cannot emphasize enough...

Quote: In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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Jacques Barzun
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In teaching you cannot...

Quote: When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
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Brian Blessed
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When I was 11,...

Quote: The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.
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Edwin Meese
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The Black Panthers was...

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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Teacher

Research is starting to...

Quote: I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
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Henry Rollins
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Teacher

I think self-reliance and...

Quote: I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.
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Zach LaVine
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Teacher

I remember when I...

Quote: I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.
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Brian Jacques
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I wrote about a...

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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James Galway
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I think it is...

Quote: I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
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George Osborne
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I think the British...

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...

Quote: Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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Minna Antrim
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Experience is a good...

Quote: Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Malala Yousafzai
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Let us remember: One...

Quote: I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.
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Robert Winston
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I did not study...

Quote: The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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William James
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The greatest use of...

Quote: Experience is the teacher of all things.
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Julius Caesar
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Experience is the teacher...

Quote: I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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Yotam Ottolenghi
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I have a terrible...

Quote: In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
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Chuck Norris
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Teacher

In America the schools...

Quote: We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
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Donna Shalala
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We know the parental...

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: There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Flannery O'Connor
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There's many a bestseller...

Quote: My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
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Billy Crystal
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My older brother Joel...

Quote: I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
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Malala Yousafzai
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Teacher

I discovered Deborah Ellis's...

Quote: I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.
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John Mahoney
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Teacher

I didn't want to...

Quote: My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.
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Paul O'Grady
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Teacher

My primary school teacher...

Quote: If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.A. P. J.
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Abdul Kalam
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If a country is...

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