My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relati...
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.
Describing Robert Bunsen: As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.
We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.
