3 December 2020 Mary Catherine Bateson Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
3 December 2020 Gus Van Sant My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
3 December 2020 Sela Ward I had an art teacher who’s the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That’s where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Nabokov Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
3 December 2020 Buddy Rich But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
3 December 2020 Sidney Hook Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
3 December 2020 Quintilian It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
3 December 2020 Neale Donald Walsch I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: ‘Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
3 December 2020 Antonio Tabucchi Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
3 December 2020 Lucas Grabeel In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
3 December 2020 George Shearing I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.
3 December 2020 Ellie Kemper 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
3 December 2020 Sidney Hook Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Diller We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
3 December 2020 Scott Hamilton I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
3 December 2020 David Eddings I taught in a small teacher’s college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn’t.
3 December 2020 Kate Adie I was sent to a nice Church of England girls’ school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary – prior to marriage.
3 December 2020 Vinny Guadagnino I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.
3 December 2020 Katey Sagal Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I’ve ever done.
3 December 2020 James Carville We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
3 December 2020 Birdy It’s quite hard to have your mom as a teacher – it’s like, she’s not necessarily a ‘real teacher’ for me. But she’d always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.
3 December 2020 Joe Baca Catholic schools in our Nation’s education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
3 December 2020 Philip Wylie One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
3 December 2020 A. Bartlett Giamatti Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
