Teacher Quotes - Page 29

• I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self-interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

  Chris Christie

  Commitment, Self, Done

  "Gov. Chris Christie on McChrystal's Downfall, Battle With Teachers' Unions". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2010.

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• My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

  Steven Chu

  Fall, Simple, Body

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• I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Believe, Hard Work

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• I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Ignorance, Ignorant

  "Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book I. 25. 60, c. 45 BC.

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• Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Fear, Teaching, Philosophical

  "Philippicae (Philippics)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 36), 44-43 BC.

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• When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

  John Henrik Clarke

  School, Years, Mind

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• I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

  Hillary Clinton

  Doctors, Office, Parent

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• Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

  Harlan Coben

  Tragedy, Hell, Strict

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• I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

  J. Cole

  Smart, Class, Clown

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• A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

  James S. Coleman

  Children, Characteristics, Function

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• As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

  Barry Commoner

  Doctors, Views, Opposites

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Kids, Idols, Way

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• I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  School, Numbers, Hated

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• I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Girl, School, Polio Vaccine

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• My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

  Cat Cora

  Mom, Dad, Father

  "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons... My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

  Simon Cowell

  Guitar, Giving, Bored

  "This Briton's got talent". Interview with David Walliams, www.independent.co.uk. March 23, 2012.

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• My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Father, Artist

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

  Kid Cudi

  Trying, Acting, May

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• I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Degrees, Prophet, University

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• Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

  Roald Dahl

  Prayer, Benches, Assembly

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.46, Penguin

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• Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

  Mitch Daniels

  Educational, Kids, Lag

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• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  Samuel Dash

  Teaching, Law, Judging

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• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  Vin Diesel

  New York, Father, Character

  "Vin Diesel Says ‘Fast Five’ is Part of a New ‘Furious’ Trilogy". Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. January 25, 2011.

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• I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.

  Matt Dillon

  Magic, Acting, Film

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• A few years back, when my style was "punk grandma", I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more "1980s substitute teacher gone wild."

  Beth Ditto

  Grandma, Years, Style

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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