To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. – Joseph Conrad
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. – Vladimir Nabokov
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part. – Jacqueline Bisset
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay. – Jeb Bush
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. – Leslie Fiedler
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. – William Glasser
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. – Elizabeth Hardwick
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it. – Yoko Ono
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about. – William Glasser
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. – Gus Van Sant
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. – Jean Rostand
I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up. – Maya Lin
My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school. – Gordon Ramsay
They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher. – Louis Farrakhan
I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. – Kevin Mitnick
A good teacher is a determined person. – Gilbert Highet
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? – Diogenes of Sinope
I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. – Dan Savage
I have to be a teacher to my daughters. – Carnie Wilson
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself. – James Cash Penney
