Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.
I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn't write my name on it, but I'm sure he figured out it was me.
In the time since I've done 'Bad Teacher,' I've produced an independent movie and directed two pilots. So I love to do all different types of things.
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
Stop regretting and let your mistakes and failures be your greatest teachers in life. Wisdom can only come from living and learning.
I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers.
Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.
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.
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.
