The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.
Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.
There has never been, and there will never be, another human who will be more successful than the humble Teacher, Jesus Christ.
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
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.
