Teacher Quotes - Page 3

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minim... -Thomas Szasz

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

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This quote proposes a balance in the roles of authority and power for a teacher. While a teacher should have the necessary authority to guide and educate students effectively, excessive use of power or control may hinder the learning process and autonomy of the students.

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

Being a teacher was great, but it wasn't what I wa... -Greg Davies

Being a teacher was great, but it wasn't what I wanted to do, so it was ultimately crushing.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teac... -Warren Zevon

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

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This quote humorously suggests that the speaker struggles with learning, regardless of the teacher's skill level. It reflects on the speaker's lighthearted acknowledgment of their learning style and challenges.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it w... -Gertrude Stein

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolu... -David Bergen

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.

Teaching teaches not only the students, it also teaches the teacher, and physics is so full of complications that you can't in your career have thought of everything.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim befo... -Gordon Ramsay

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

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This quote mentions the speaker's father's profession as a swim teacher and their shared experience of swimming together before and after school. It reflects on the special bond the speaker had with their father through swimming and his role as a teacher.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure the... -Sidney Hook

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in... -Ann Bancroft

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

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This quote expresses gratitude for teachers who recognized and nurtured the speaker's potential or talent. It highlights the significant impact that supportive teachers can have on their students' confidence and self-belief.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell wher... -Henry Adams

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

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This quote emphasizes the enduring impact of teachers on their students' lives. A teacher's influence goes beyond the immediate moment and can leave a lasting mark on the personal and intellectual growth of their students, even shaping their future decisions and achievements.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he ... -Beau Bridges

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

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This quote reflects the deep bond between the speaker and their father, who served as their teacher and imparted valuable life lessons. It highlights the importance of not only being a teacher but also a caring and supportive parent figure.

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.

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

I could never have a better teacher in those days ... -Tony Visconti

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

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This quote expresses the speaker's admiration for their father, describing him as an excellent teacher during their earlier years. It reflects on the value of parental guidance and mentorship in a person's life.

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

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