Quotes of: English-teacher Keyword

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to re...

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn’t necessarily easy; which must explain why people who want ...

Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students

To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when learning takes place. Most fundamentally, teaching in this conception is creating those conditions in which most--if not all...

What the Best College Teachers Do

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

The Complete English Poems

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

My One and Only

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

Bat for Lashes

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Derek Walcott

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

Eva Green

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

John Templeton

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

James D. Watson

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

Christopher Walken

Almásy: How can you ever smile, as if your life hadn't capsized?

The English Patient

When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.

Sarah MacLean

I had a good teacher." "Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass." "I mean you, dummy.

Ghost Town

Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.

Guidance for Your Way

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is...

Laurieann Gibson

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Annie Leibovitz

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.

Spirit Tale Five: Teacher of Knowledge

a sincere promise, coupled with a helping hand, can bring hope where before there had been only despair.

Motivating Students and Teachers in an Era of Standards

Teachers loved to say people had potential; that's what teachers did to keep themselves from getting canned. What were they supposed to say-

The Shadow Thieves