To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as… — Pauline Collins Copy Share Image
I'm so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, 'Ayyyy!' No matter if you a… — Cardi B Copy Share Image
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I… — Moon Unit Zappa Copy Share Image
If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach… — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
“I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses… — Matthew Norman Copy Share Image
I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying,… — Nathan Fielder Copy Share Image
My mum was an art teacher, so we used to have fantastic dressing-up costumes when we were little. — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two… — W.A. Mathieu Copy Share Image
If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually,… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
“Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice… — Bill Roorbach Copy Share Image
When I wanted to be a music teacher, I wanted to help people through voice. Now, I get to help people out… — Khalid Copy Share Image
I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
“Our schools today are probably further away from self-management than most other types of organizations. We have turned schools, almost everywhere, into… — Frederic Laloux Copy Share Image
I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
Kirtan is for all people. There are no experts, no beginners. The practice itself is the teacher, guiding us to ourselves. Kirtan… — Jai Uttal Copy Share Image
My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working.… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning… — Plato 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
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
