Teacher Quotes - Page 27

• I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when I graduated. My mother died very young, and I didn't have any home, so I had to find a way to earn a living. It seemed to me that photography - to the great disappointment, I have to say, of my painting teacher - could offer that. So I went and did a degree in photography, and then after that I could go out and get paid for work. For portraits, things like that.

  Stuart Franklin

  Photography, Mother, Disappointment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was fortunate to be at that school in an era in which encounters between students and teachers were encouraged; there were a number of teachers who lived on campus, and they'd regularly invite students over for dinner on the weekends. I hope it's still like that: being treated seriously by an adult you admire is a great gift. Children, like adults, want respect - but it's only when you're older that you realize how few people actually extend it.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Children, School, Weekend

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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• When you approach the second half of your life, you start to unconsciously consider what you're passing on. As a writer, that's obviously part of what you're doing. And as a teacher, that's another way of passing on information, history, or whatever you have.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you're a "good" teacher, somebody who is responsible or careful, teaching takes time. Teaching is performative. Students nowadays evaluate you and there's a lot made in these evaluations about how you perform. Maybe you don't have the greatest delivery in the world. But you know a lot, have a lot to offer. So that's pretty unsettling. We've become so image-based and performance-based as a society. You have to be ready to appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" at any moment.

  Lynne Tillman

  Teaching, World, Students

  Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.

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• We kind of know that food is necessary to survive. But our ways of connecting with food have been, in many ways, taken over by capitalism - certainly taken over by the influence large corporations have on the way that we eat and the way that we think about food. That's why kids these days are more prepared to take nutritional advice from Ronald McDonald than they are from their parents or their teachers or from scientists. And particularly in urban areas, you'll see kids who honestly believe tomatoes come from the supermarket rather than from a plant.

  Raj Patel

  Believe, Taken, Kids

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• I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always been interested in the writers who care about their sentences and who really work on that level. I have always said that I hate writing, I love revision. So, the language is really important to me. And the comedy and the horror that come out of the language.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Hate, Writing, Important

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• I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.

  Junot Diaz

  Dream, Book, School

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• The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.

  Huston Smith

  Forbidden, Western

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• Perhaps sometimes we have self-serving sense that we often experience when we believe we know better than our boss, our teacher, our spouse or partner, our friends, our political leaders - if only they would listen to us!

  Mary C. Gentile

  Believe, Leader, Boss

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• I did not always trust my teachers, because I found them too weak. I was looking for something that could take me in a new direction, for things that I could admire. And because it was so hard to find this, I became a sort of outsider. That's why I began to identify with the insane, "outsider" artists.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Insane, Outsiders

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• I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom to think for ourselves. The education was good at the Catholic school, but you only got that one ideology.

  Laura Dern

  School, Thinking, Catholic

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• Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human being and is very patient. She had enough patience for me, as a kid, which I'm very thankful for. She made sure that music was a part of my general education as well.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Mother, School, Kids

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• Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.

  Amy Sillman

  Art, Cheerleader, Students

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• My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Religious, Father

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• A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Education, Retirement

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• Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

  Richard Armour

  Retirement, Tired, Firsts

  Richard Armour (1976). “Going Like Sixty: A Lighthearted Look at the Later Years”

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• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

  Joe Baca

  Children, Teaching, School

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• Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

  Michele Bachmann

  Sometimes, Deprivation, Marvelous

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• The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

  Michele Bachmann

  Prayer, Heaven, Understanding

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• If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

  Syd Barrett

  College, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

  Bernard Baruch

  Retirement, Numbers, Age

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• Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

  Bob Beauprez

  Children, Common Sense, Focus

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• Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Retirement, Holiday, Rejection

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

  Glenn Beck

  Retirement, Children, Teaching

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• All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

  Martha Beck

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

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