A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own.
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” (Analects 2.11)
You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.
I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.
I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.
It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.
The older I get, the more I realize that I am not just the student, but I am my own teacher as well.
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.
I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
