I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to… — Heather Hemmens Copy Share Image
I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself.… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly,… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Doing retreats, getting personal teachings from time to time from inspiring teachers, all of this helps to recharge our batteries. Then we… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock,… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
You can't have an honest fourth grade school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Johnny, your son, your only child, the fruit of… — Dom Irrera Copy Share Image
We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
We get through life and this is part of the education process also. In real life, we meet bad bosses and good… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England… — Bob Brookmeyer Copy Share Image
There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play.… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished.… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Your first leader is your dad. 'course he controls your food and shelter, so, he's not really a leader, he's more of… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Over recent years, [there's been] a strong tendency to require assessment of children and teachers so that [teachers] have to teach to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously.… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
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