I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
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.
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them.
I just thought that was the most noble contribution you could make to human kind, was to be a teacher.
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.
I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.
I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
