Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century. – David Puttnam
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. – Gary Burton
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that. – Freeman A. Hrabowski III
He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher. – Glenn Ford
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation. – Ann Curry
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. – Chris Hayes
I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica. – Aida Turturro
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. – Patricia Neal
As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child. – Kerry Healey
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. – James Tobin
I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher. – Marta Kristen
That is a secondary teacher conception – the writer as an observer. – Peter Bichsel
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject. – Abdoulaye Wade
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. – Eugen Herrigel
I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke – he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him. – Mikheil Saakashvili
I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry. – Roald Hoffmann
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. – Burl Ives
The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction. – Sheldon Jackson
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet. – Ama Ata Aidoo
My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician. – Jai Courtney
