3 December 2020 Gordon Getty When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I’d composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I’m the same composer I was then.
3 December 2020 Will Hermes Adele Adkins’ retro-soul debut, ’19’, was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.
3 December 2020 Morihei Ueshiba Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.
3 December 2020 Grazia Deledda After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
3 December 2020 Edmond H. Fischer It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
3 December 2020 Maria Montessori The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
3 December 2020 Keith Emerson Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
3 December 2020 Peter Brimelow Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses’ interests, not the members.
3 December 2020 Jane Haddam I’ve been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I’ve been an editor on magazines.
3 December 2020 Maria Montessori We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
3 December 2020 Alan Sugar If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of ‘Roll Out The Barrel,’ but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.
3 December 2020 Frances Farmer 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.
3 December 2020 John Strachan To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
3 December 2020 Kate Clinton A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell’s Soup kid.
3 December 2020 Dan Savage I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.
3 December 2020 Idina Menzel My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master’s degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she’s a brilliant second-grade teacher. I’m in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
3 December 2020 Heidi Klum For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
3 December 2020 Miles Teller I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like ‘Alright, I’ll try drama.’
3 December 2020 Danny McBride You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I’ve been doing are based on different people I might’ve had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.
3 December 2020 Devon Sawa I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I’d have like one teacher, which was really bad.
3 December 2020 Tony Dungy You never know what’s going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
