Teacher Quotes - Page 30

• Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

  Rita Dove

  Children, Trying, Needs

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• 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.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mom, Kids, Giving

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

  Dave Eggers

  Giants, Peaches, Firsts

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• High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

  Dave Eggers

  Reading, School, Giving

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Effort, Tasks

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Children, School

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• I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

  Craig Ferguson

  School, Existentialism, Argument

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• I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

  Will Ferrell

  Math, Exercise, Jumping

  "Will Ferrell says growing up in Irvine made him funny". Interview with Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. July 23, 2008.

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• I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

  Nathan Fillion

  School, Acting, Looks

  "IGN Interviews Nathan Fillion". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 29, 2006.

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• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  Nathan Fillion

  School, Class, Play

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• My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

  James Franco

  School, Years, Names

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• My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

  Al Franken

  Running, Dad, Kids

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• The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

  Kinky Friedman

  Tattooed

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• TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Teaching, Tools, Stories

  "Fred Friendly's Faith In The Constitution" by Nat Hentoff, www.washingtonpost.com. March 14, 1998.

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• Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

  Lady Gaga

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

  Howard Gardner

  Country, Japan, Support

  "The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

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• Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

  William Glasser

  Intellectual, Friendly, Done

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• In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

  William Glasser

  Book, Teaching, School

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• Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

  William Glasser

  Interesting Conversation, Perspective, Friendly

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• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

  Daniel Goleman

  Talking, Feelings, Needs

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.413, Bantam

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• Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Emotional, Years

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• America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  America, Democracy, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

  Michael Gove

  Different, Bigs, Approach

  'The Andrew Marr Show',, news.bbc.co.uk. November 21, 2010.

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• When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

  Michael Gove

  Government, Discipline, Support

  "Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Teaching, Humor, Advice

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