Teacher Quotes - Page 31

• Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Knack, Autistic

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Voice, Sound

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Giving Up, Aunt

  "Temple Grandin on her struggles and ‘yak yaks’" by Joan Raymond, www.nbcnews.com. February 02, 2010.

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• Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

  Matt Groening

  Drawing, People, Shy

  "'The Simpsons Movie': Our Animated Interview Matt Groening". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. July 27, 2007.

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• My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

  Dave Grohl

  Mother, School, Virginia

  "Dave Grohl: 'I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. I started praying...'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

  Erin Gruwell

  Believe, Want, Calling

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• To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

  William Hague

  Children, Teaching, Filling In

  "The last chance election for Britain". William Hague's speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

  Susan Hampshire

  Hard Work, People, Support

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• Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.

  Herbie Hancock

  People, Identity, Twenties

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• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Art, Ideas

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• I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

  Tom Hiddleston

  Children, War, Flower

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• It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

  Eric Hoffer

  Time, Children, Teaching

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 33, 1973.

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• I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

  Whitney Houston

  Children, Teaching, Waiting

  "10 Things You Didn't Know About Whitney Houston" by Luchina Fisher, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2012.

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• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  Naveen Jain

  Brain, Dollars, Students

  "Naveen Jain on Rethinking Education: Can We Use Neuroscience to Create Better Learners". www.forbes.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

  Kevin James

  Men, Years, Role Models

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Jobs, Home

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• When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

  Derek Jeter

  Parent, Remember, Embarrassed

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• Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

  Erica Jong

  School, Thinking, People

  "Love Comes First" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2009.

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• I wanted to be a teacher. My dad was a teacher.

  Kim Kardashian

  Wanted

  "Kim Kardashian Is 17 Again!". Interview with Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. July 28, 2010.

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• When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

  Bil Keane

  School, Drawing, Philadelphia

  "Comics: Meet the Artist" online cha, www.washingtonpost.com. July 31, 2002.

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• As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

  Sue Kelly

  Mother, Quality, Importance

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• Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Retirement

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• I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

  Karlie Kloss

  Kids, Two, Kindergarten

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• For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

  Heidi Klum

  Teaching, Kids, Broken

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