3 December 2020 Lily Allen When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in – that’s when I realized I had a voice.
3 December 2020 Talib Kweli I think once you’re in the public eye, whether you’re a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you’re automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
3 December 2020 John Philip Sousa I have always believed that 98% of a student’s progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
3 December 2020 John Jay Chapman Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
3 December 2020 Thurgood Marshall None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
3 December 2020 Jennie Garth I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher – all in high school.
3 December 2020 Gracie Allen Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
3 December 2020 John Madden I’m sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
3 December 2020 Rosalind Wiseman As a teacher myself I’ve been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn’t want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
3 December 2020 Alex O'Loughlin I’m the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys’ school in Sydney.
3 December 2020 Karl Lagerfeld I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
3 December 2020 Darrell Royal You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
3 December 2020 Sarah Sutton Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher’s diploma.
3 December 2020 Sheldon Jackson The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.
3 December 2020 Amartya Sen But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
3 December 2020 Louis Farrakhan They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.
3 December 2020 Margaret Spellings I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
3 December 2020 Salman Khan In the ideal classroom, the teacher is either spending all of their time doing deep interventions with students on a one-on-one basis or facilitating true interactivity – labs, simulations, projects.
3 December 2020 Charles Schumer I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
