Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
Teacher Kitano: Here's your list of friends in the order they died.
Teacher Kitano: Sorry - it's against the rules for me to kill, isn't it?
Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { }
When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.
Love this quote from a teacher about their class "This is four walls around the future!
School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.
I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.
Good health and good sense are two great blessings.
I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering, stomach-churning insecurity of being alive. The standard subjects of history, geography, mathematics, and English seemed perve...
The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is weakened, the characteristics of region and clan, neighborhood or kindred are attenuated. The individual is denuded of ev...
What was behind this smug presumption that what pleased you was bad or at least unimportant in comparison to other things? … Little children were trained not to do “just what they liked’ but … but what? … Of course! What others liked. And w...
Michael Longo: [showing a picture of his new girlfriend] You think she's good-looking? She's smart, too. She's gonna be a teacher. Tony DeVienazo: Let me see that. Oh, I know this girl. Michael Longo: Yeah? Tony DeVienazo: Yeah... I saw her kissing a...
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious bus...
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral...
Hang a German, even if he is a good man.
