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.
Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.
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.
The older I get, the more I realize that I am not just the student, but I am my own teacher as well.
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.
I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.
Ron: Harry, what did you just do? Hermione: You attacked a teacher!
Lestat: [after Claudia kills the piano teacher] Claudia, what have we told you? Claudia: Never in the house.
Harvey Milk: If it were true that children emulate their teachers, we'd have a lot more nuns running around.
I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.
