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3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

3 December 2020 Jon Secada

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

3 December 2020 Harlan Coben

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It’s much too strict, but it’s a hell of a teacher.

3 December 2020 Christa McAuliffe

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

3 December 2020 Alan Shepard

I’d like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

3 December 2020 Confucius

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

3 December 2020 Joyce Carol Oates

As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don’t really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

3 December 2020 Warren Buffett

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

3 December 2020 Horace Mann

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

3 December 2020 Simon van der Meer

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher’s family.

3 December 2020 Mark Mothersbaugh

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn’t visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn’t work.

3 December 2020 Swami Vivekananda

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

3 December 2020 Saul Williams

My father’s a preacher, my mother’s a teacher, thus I rhyme.

3 December 2020 Ajay Naidu

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

3 December 2020 Alicia Vikander

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be ‘The Tree Of Life’ and ‘The Piano Teacher,’ which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

3 December 2020 Syd Barrett

If I’d stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

3 December 2020 Jay Mohr

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice

My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

3 December 2020 Marta Kristen

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

3 December 2020 James S. Coleman

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

3 December 2020 Elisabeth Rohm

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

3 December 2020 Steve Harvey

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.

3 December 2020 Jeb Bush

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

3 December 2020 James Collins

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

3 December 2020 Daryl Hall

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

3 December 2020 Charles Stanley

You can’t tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God… So I think the distinction is that there’s a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

3 December 2020 Thomas Szasz

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

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