Felix Adler: The office of the public teacher is an...

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Quote: The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
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Author:
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Teacher

The true teacher defends...

Quote: If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.
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Author:
Geoffrey Canada
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Teacher

If you are a...

Quote: It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.
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Marcus du Sautoy
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Teacher

It's my belief that...

Quote: Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.
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Author:
Grace Jones
Category:
Teacher

Listen to my advice;...

Quote: I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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Author:
Carlo Rubbia
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Teacher

I was born in...

Quote: I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.
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Author:
Roald Hoffmann
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Teacher

I am a teacher,...

Quote: My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
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Author:
Niklaus Wirth
Category:
Teacher

My being a teacher...

Quote: I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.
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Author:
John Lithgow
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Teacher

I owe my whole...

Quote: In an effective classroom, students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.
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Author:
Harry Wong
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Teacher

In an effective classroom,...

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: I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.
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Author:
Chelsea Clinton
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Teacher

I hope to become...

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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Author:
Eric Maskin
Category:
Teacher

Of course, MIT was...

Quote: I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
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Author:
James Levine
Category:
Teacher

I was lucky that...

Quote: Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.
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Author:
Marilyn Ferguson
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Teacher

Achievers have an enabling...

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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Author:
Kirsten Dunst
Category:
Teacher

A lot of moms...

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
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Teacher

I believe that the...

Quote: I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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Author:
Langston Hughes
Category:
Teacher

I was a victim...

Quote: I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer…education that connects the will to know with the will to become.
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Author:
Bell Hooks
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Teacher

I entered the classroom...

Quote: I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.
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Author:
Marcia Gay Harden
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Teacher

I had a science...

Quote: I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.
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Author:
Alton Brown
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Teacher

I'm like a really...

Quote: I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.
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Author:
Annie Leibovitz
Category:
Teacher

I went to school...

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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Author:
John Mahoney
Category:
Teacher

I didn't want to...

Quote: When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.
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Author:
Cecilia Bartoli
Category:
Teacher

When I had my...

Quote: If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.
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Author:
Forest Whitaker
Category:
Teacher

If I go to...

Quote: I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.
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Author:
DeRay Mckesson
Category:
Teacher

I was a teacher....

Quote: The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
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Author:
Chris Van Allsburg
Category:
Teacher

The crudest thing I've...

Quote: I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.
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Author:
Pierce Brosnan
Category:
Teacher

I have had a...

Quote: I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.
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Author:
Rick Riordan
Category:
Teacher

I tend to think...

Quote: I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.
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Author:
Tony Visconti
Category:
Teacher

I could never have...

Quote: A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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Author:
Patricia Neal
Category:
Teacher

A master can tell...

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