I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
Teacher: A golden future awaits you. Just kidding.
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
