John Updike Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

  John Updike

  Teacher, Appreciation, Art

• Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

  John Updike

  Marriage, Teacher, Aristocracy

  John Updike (2012). “Couples: A Novel”, p.72, Random House

• I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.

  John Updike

  Teacher, Husband, School

  "Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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