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Teacher
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Art
Gift
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Mind
Should
A teacher should have a creative mind.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Important
How
Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
- Adora Svitak
She
Taught
For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
- Aisha Tyler
College
Became
My daughter became a teacher right out of college.
- Al Franken
Yes
Actually
Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
- Alanna Ubach
Morning Person
You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.
- Alanna Ubach
Best
University
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Albert Camus
Art
Expression
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Love
Better
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Said
Always
I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.
- Alex Rodriguez
I Am
Living
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
- Alexander the Great
Like
Goofy
I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.
- Alton Brown
Some
Over
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
- Amartya Sen
Against
His
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Will
Pupils
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Good Teacher
Very
I wasn't a very good teacher.
- Amos Lee
Love
Would
I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.
- Amy Lee
Art
Minds
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
School
Old School
I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.
- Andre Ward
Rest
Six
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
- Andy Rooney
Where
Encouraged
When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
- Angela Duckworth
Lucky
Some
I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
- Ann Bancroft
Lucky
Some
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
- Ann Bancroft
Driving
Mentor
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
- Anne Rice
Mind
Singing
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
- Anne Sullivan
Sign
Exclusive
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- Aristotle
Teachers
How
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
- Charles Kuralt
Belong
Grown-Up
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
- Charles Kuralt
Medical
Benefits
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
- Chris Christie
Her
His
Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.
- Chris Raschka
Maintain
Sciences
Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.
- Chris Raschka
Future
Teach
I touch the future. I teach.
- Christa McAuliffe
Like
Mary
I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
- Christopher Durang
Celebrity
Just
I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.
- Chuck Noll
Music
Mother
I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.
- Connie Britton
Movies
Goes
I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
- Dakota Fanning
Best
Practice
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Dalai Lama
You
Disciple
If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
- Dallas Willard
Sometimes
Next
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
- Dan Rather
Almost Everything
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
- Dan Simmons
Doing
Think
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
- Dave Chappelle
Natural
Just
I'm just not a natural teacher.
- David Benioff
Mentor
Editor
A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
- David Bergen
Some
Making
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
- David E. Kelley
Career
Coach
My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
- David Friedman
Next
Most
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
- David Price
Most
Elementary
My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.
- Deb Caletti
Mother
Army
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
- Jim Parrack
Feel
Role
I feel really good in the teacher role.
- Jimmy Chamberlin
Loved
Know
You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
- Joan Cusack
Education
Been
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
- Joe Baca
Parent
Always
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
- Joe Manchin
Imagine
Standing
I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
- John Glover
Audience
Like
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
- John Henrik Clarke
Side
Wanted
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.
- John Krasinski
English Teacher
I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.
- John Krasinski
Experience
Great
Experience is a great teacher.
- John Legend
Music
Disorder
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
- John Ruskin
Mind
Other
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
- John Steinbeck
School
Personality
To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
- John Strachan
School
System
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
- John Taylor Gatto
Marriage
Peasant
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
- John Updike
Financial
Reach
As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.
- John Warner
Country
Very
I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.
- John Wells
Chaos
Calm
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
- Jonathan Kozol
Cartooning
There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Patience
Never
I've never had the patience of a teacher.
- Josh Turner
Student
Always
My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.
- Joshua Bell
Challenges
Lives
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
- Joyce Meyer
School
Public
I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
- Julia Glass
Experience
Things
Experience is the teacher of all things.
- Julius Caesar
Loyalty
His
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
- Bainbridge Colby
Most
Dad
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
- Beau Bridges
Never
Like
I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.
- Guy Davenport
Society
Pedestal
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
- Guy Kawasaki
World
Taught
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
- Bertolt Brecht
Nature
Use
We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.
- Bhumibol Adulyadej
Very
Interactive
The best teacher is very interactive.
- Bill Gates
Pupils
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz
Money
High
My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.
- Billy Baldwin
Student
Poor
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
- Henny Youngman
Never
Eternity
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Adams
Library
Standard
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
- Bjarne Stroustrup
Best
Entertainer
The best teacher is an entertainer.
- Bob Keeshan
Help
Million
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
- Bodhidharma
Desire
Attempting
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Horace Mann
Desire
Attempting
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Horace Mann
Would
Comedian
I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.
- Brad Garrett
Love
Ignite
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
- Brad Henry
Still
High
My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.
- Brandon Jay McLaren
Never
Once
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
- Howard Nemerov
Observation
New
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
- Bruce Barton
Great Teacher
Experience can be a great teacher.
- Burgess Owens
Task
Deserts
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
- C. S. Lewis
Love
I Love
I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
- Cara Buono
Soul
Raw Material
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung
Ballet
Wanted
I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
- Jaclyn Smith
Die
I Was Born
I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher.
- Jacques Parizeau
Electrician
Mum
My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.
- Jai Courtney
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