Tutor Quotes

• Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

  Arne Duncan

  Children, Father, School

  "My Most Important Job" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

  Courtney Love

  Want, Stuff, Classic

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

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• I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.

  Jim Knight

  Children, Real, Technology

  "Plan to give every child internet access at home" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. January 04, 2008.

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• No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Virtue

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• Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

  Michael Jackson

  Sleep, Three, Records

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• I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

  Candace Cameron

  Couple, School, Years

  "Candace Cameron Bure: 'When I Was 17'". Interview with Julie Miller, www.seventeen.com. September 18, 2009.

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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

  John Locke

  Teacher, Teaching, Easier

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

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• Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Teaching, Pupils, Should

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• Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

  William Shakespeare

  Suits, Action, Discretion

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• Don't listen to people telling you that getting up early is best. René Descartes is one of history's most important philosophers, but he rarely got out of bed before noon - and when he started getting up early for a new job as a private tutor, it caused him to catch pneumonia and die.

  Gideon Defoe

  Jobs, Pneumonia, Up Early

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• I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

  Danica McKellar

  School, Years, Lucky

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• Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Education, Mistake, Learning

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• I am any man's suitor,
  If any will be my tutor:
  Some say this life is pleasant,
  Some think it speedeth fast,
  In time there is no present,
  In eternity no future,
  In eternity no past.
  We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
  Who will riddle me the how and the why?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Past, Men

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.

  Pythagoras

  Age, Youth, Sin

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• Emotions are classes in the Earth school. Some classes are about fear, and some are about love. The Universe is your tutor, and your classroom is your life. The main course in the Earth school, Authentic Power, is the same for everyone, but different students need different courses in order to complete it.

  Gary Zukav

  School, Order, Class

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Dec 03, 2015

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• Five," she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. "Five?" Gabriel echoed blankly. "My rating," she said, and smiled at him. "Your skill and technique may, perhaps, require work, but the native talent is certainly there. What you require is practice." "And you are willing to be my tutor?" "I should be very insulted if you chose another," Cecily said, and leaned up to kiss him again.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kissing, Practice, Skills

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• It was really cool being out on the road and doing school with my tutor over Skype or on the phone, but it can definitely be difficult.

  Jackson Guthy

  School, Phones, Skype

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vices, Fifty, Worn

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• The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Book, Heart, Men

  "Critical and historical essays. Biographies. Indian penal code. Contributions to Knight's quarterly magazine". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, "A Conversation between Mr. Abraham Cowley and Mr. John Milton, Touching The Great Civil War" (August 1824), p. 654, 1873.

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• Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Nature, Heaven, Firsts

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.238, Vintage

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• God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Father, Lds, Soul

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• The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

  Martin Luther

  Ghost, Holy, Masters

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.3

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• The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

  Juvenal

  Eclipse, Pupils, Warrants

  Juvenal (1839). “The Satires of Juvenal and Persius: From the Texts of Ruperti and Orellius: with English Notes, Partly Comp., and Partly Original”, p.338

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