I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.

I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

In my country where I was born, Guyana, we push more for education. It's more being a lawyer, doctor, teacher, or scientist.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.

I wouldn't change a thing about this journey. It was the best teacher I've ever had and was everything I could've hoped for.

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our childrens lives.

The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

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