Teacher Quotes - Page 32

• I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Hate, School

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• Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, Years, Mediocrity

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• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

  Jonathan Kozol

  New York, Children, Average

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• My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Teaching, Ambition, School

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Kids

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  School, Self, Taught

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• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  School, Artist, Three

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• I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

  Jessica Lange

  Years, Voice, Technique

  Interview with Alan Cumming, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2013.

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• Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Retirement, Teaching, People

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• Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Events, Lectures, Kind

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• Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Police, Enough

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• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  Laura Linney

  Book, Writing, School

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• It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

  John Locke

  Teaching, Easier, Command

  John Locke (1693). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.64

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• You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Character, Imagination, Acting

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• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Teaching, Painful

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• I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Jobs, Thinking, Culture

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• I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

  John Madden

  Form, Coaches, Has Beens

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• Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

  Ziggy Marley

  Teaching, Jamaica, Lasts

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

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• Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

  Ricky Martin

  Hero, Helping Others, Problem

  "Ricky Martin giving a voice to exploited children". "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2010.

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• NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

  Christa McAuliffe

  School, Space Flight, Nasa

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• A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

  Matthew McConaughey

  School, College, Levels

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 20, 2006.

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• Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

  Bryant H. McGill

  World Suffering, Literature, Suffering

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• I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

  Phil McGraw

  Jobs, Children, Mean

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

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• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  Danica McKellar

  Home, School, Mean

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