3 December 2020 William Hague To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you’ve been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
3 December 2020 Loretta Young Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
3 December 2020 Norman MacCaig When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
3 December 2020 Brian Ferneyhough When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.
3 December 2020 Jamie Moyer If you’re a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you’re considered a failure.
3 December 2020 Berenice Abbott There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
3 December 2020 Woody Allen I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
3 December 2020 Ziggy Marley Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
3 December 2020 Dan Rather The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
3 December 2020 Pat Boone Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
3 December 2020 Tyler Posey I took Spanish in high school and I didn’t do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.
3 December 2020 Andrew Cohen One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
3 December 2020 Paul O'Grady My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I’d rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney’s barber shop.
3 December 2020 Jeffrey Donovan Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said ‘you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.’ I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.
3 December 2020 Dave Eggers I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl’s ‘James and the Giant Peach’.
3 December 2020 Anthony Holden I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
3 December 2020 Derek Jacobi I think my parents were happy that I’d gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, ‘Well if acting doesn’t work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.’ Fortunately, the acting worked out.
3 December 2020 Maria Montessori The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
3 December 2020 Danica McKellar In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, ‘Me? You’ve got to be joking!’ I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
3 December 2020 Bobby Knight I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.
3 December 2020 Niklaus Wirth My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
