Teacher Quotes

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

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.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

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.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.