Teacher Quotes - Page 33

• Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

  Danica McKellar

  Stupid, Home, Math

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• As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Long Distance, Thinking

  Margaret Mead (1970). “Culture and Commitment”

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• Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

  John Mellencamp

  School, Fighting, Thinking

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• A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

  Joyce Meyer

  Bmw, Diploma, High School Diploma

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• I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.

  David Miliband

  Country, Mean, Successful

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

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• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

  Cory Monteith

  Years, Class, Community

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

  Dylan Moran

  Art, Games, Play

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• Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Atmosphere, Directors

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 3 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Responsibility, Parent, Etc

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• I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

  Haruki Murakami

  Father, Literature, Wanted

  "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

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• I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

  Liam Neeson

  Teaching, Kids, People

  "Liam Neeson talks Kinsey!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 10, 2004.

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• We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers’ unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.

  Grover Norquist

  House, Groups, Trials

  "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January 2004.

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• As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Motivation, Creativity, School

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• I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Appreciation, America, Role Models

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• Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Talking, Priorities, Promise

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• The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

  William Osler

  Should Have, Age, Three

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.326, Duke University Press

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• Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

  Christopher Paolini

  Writing, School, Class

  "Christopher Paolini: 'Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon'" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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• My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Running, Jobs, New York

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• I was an elementary school teacher.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  School, Elementary School, School Teachers

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• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

  Natalie Portman

  Mom, Husband, Dad

  "The Late Show with David Letterman", www.oocities.org. November 24, 1994.

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• Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

  Colin Powell

  Children, School, Giving

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• 'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

  Terry Pratchett

  Educational, Thinking, Process

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• The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

  Chris Pratt

  Thinking, Bridesmaids, Comedy

  "The Very Busy Chris Pratt on Preparing for Moneyball, Goofing in What's Your Number? and Ten Year". Interview with Christopher Rosen, movieline.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Education, Children

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