Teacher Quotes - Page 34

• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  Quintilian

  Boys, Effort, Mind

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.78, Delphi Classics

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• I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Editing, Directors, Want

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• I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Thinking, Great Teacher

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• My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Father, School, Swim

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• Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Relationship, Raises Questions, Years

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

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• I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

  Anne Rice

  Mentor, Driving, Claims

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• If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

  Keith Richards

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Men

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

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• For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

  Sally Ride

  Girl, Encouragement, Boys

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• My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.

  Rick Riordan

  Writing, Years, Ideas

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• I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Reading, Kids

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• I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

  Tim Robbins

  Talking, Acting, Hell

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• Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

  Marilynne Robinson

  School, Thinking, Three

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• Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.

  Kid Rock

  Baseball, Smart, Athlete

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• Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

  Mitt Romney

  Inspirational, School, Kids

  "Romney Outlines 'Education Crisis,' Seeks To Paint Obama As Union Apologist" by Joy Resmovits, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2012.

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• It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

  Jean Rostand

  Hard Work, Science, Imagination

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Mean, Years, Leader

  "The Leader of the Future Comes From the Past" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

  Katey Sagal

  Mother, Sacrifice, Self

  Interview with Rachel Bertsche, www.oprah.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Spiritual Teachers, Meditation

  "A Way Out of Suffering: An Interview With Sharon Salzberg". "Omega Institute" Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2012.

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• I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Meditation, Love Strength

  "Fierce Compassion" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2012.

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• My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

  Gus Van Sant

  Art, Gay, Men

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

  Gus Van Sant

  Art, Gay, Men

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Teaching, Philosophical, Men

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Education, Trying, Unfaithful

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• I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Education, Austria

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

  Jill Scott

  Senior, Art, School

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