3 December 2020 Simon Newcomb My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
3 December 2020 Kevin Richardson I wasn’t originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.
3 December 2020 Ann Bancroft 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.
3 December 2020 Wendy Liebman I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw ‘How to be a Stand-up Comedian,’ it resonated. I realized I’d rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stegner A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
3 December 2020 Chris Pratt The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. ‘Bridesmaids’ is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as ‘Bad Teacher.’
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
3 December 2020 Dave Chappelle If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.
3 December 2020 Anne Rice I claim Dickens as a mentor. He’s my teacher. He’s one of my driving forces.
3 December 2020 Catherine Helen Spence I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
3 December 2020 Craig Ferguson I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word ‘existentialism.’
3 December 2020 Donna Shalala We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It’s not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
3 December 2020 Freeman A. Hrabowski III My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
3 December 2020 Clay Aiken But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn’t counting on money to much.
3 December 2020 William Irwin Thompson The teacher of history’s work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
3 December 2020 Maggie Gallagher Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
3 December 2020 James Tobin My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
3 December 2020 William Glasser We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can’t relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he’ll never be a competent teacher.
3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
3 December 2020 Linda Evangelista It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren’t, then I’d be a teacher.
3 December 2020 Mary Augusta Ward The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
3 December 2020 Jessica Szohr The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn’t matter if you’re an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist – you can’t really help it when you have feelings for someone.
3 December 2020 Bruce Barton The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
3 December 2020 Jean Rostand It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
3 December 2020 Eva Green I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class – I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.
