3 December 2020 Tom Perrotta When I was writing ‘The Abstinence Teacher,’ I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
3 December 2020 Fred W. Friendly TV is bigger than any story it reports. It’s the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Hardwick Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
3 December 2020 John Singleton It’s cool for me because I’m a director, but I’m also a teacher. I’m a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.
3 December 2020 Arthur Holly Compton To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
3 December 2020 Phil McGraw I’m embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
3 December 2020 Tucker Carlson The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.
3 December 2020 Sylvester Stallone When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
3 December 2020 Robert Sternberg There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.
3 December 2020 Gilbert Highet A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
3 December 2020 C. L. R. James My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
3 December 2020 Nathan Fillion I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It’s an incredible amount of work.
3 December 2020 Travis Barker I’m a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you’d tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
3 December 2020 Amos Bronson Alcott A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
3 December 2020 Justin Townes Earle I’ve always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don’t think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
3 December 2020 Tom Brown, Jr. Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
3 December 2020 Major Owens We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher’s salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
3 December 2020 Thom Gunn It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the ’50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
3 December 2020 Frederick William Robertson The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
3 December 2020 Ian McShane My dad was a football player – a soccer player – for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
3 December 2020 John Steinbeck 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.
