That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood.
A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.
Teacher Kitano: Life is a game. So fight for survival and see if you're worth it.
Teacher Kitano: What? Go ahead. Shoot. Nakagawa, you can do it. Nakagawa, you can do it.
When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
Don’t fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become.
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.
There are literally a million ways to deal with any situation and Madiba was the best teacher in tutoring me to see those ways, but lying was never an option.
One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.
I was not born with English in my pocket.
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
I am illiterate. Just not in English.
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
