My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitab...
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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.
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
