When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.
The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.
I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.
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.
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
