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. – Kazuo Ishiguro
In the ideal classroom, the teacher is either spending all of their time doing deep interventions with students on a one-on-one basis or facilitating true interactivity – labs, simulations, projects. – Salman Khan
I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard. – Susan Hampshire
All I wanted was to be a university teacher. – Jalal Talabani
I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears. – Vinny Guadagnino
Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls. – Ann Richards
As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic. – Jenna Bush
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar. – Trevor Nunn
I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something. – Mike Judge
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York. – Judy Collins
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. – Marilyn Hacker
I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher – all in high school. – Jennie Garth
I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher. – Tim Gunn
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it. – Katarina Witt
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. – David Guterson
I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father. – Tony Visconti
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do. – Major Owens
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. – Felix Adler
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded. – Loni Anderson
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. – Niklaus Wirth
