My teacher told me I’d never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.
So what does a good teacher do? Create tension – but just the right amount.
It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it’s paid off.
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.
I didn’t have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher’s class? No. No. It doesn’t happen, ‘cause there’s no thought of getting along.
I was a teacher once.
When rap music needed to have a teacher, I became it.
I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I’ve always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I’m worried about – I’m worried about education.
The single most important thing in a child’s performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford – rough and full of trainee punks – but I was very lucky in that I had one inspiring teacher, John Malone, who gave the whole class an interest in romantic poetry.
I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don’t become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize ‘inconvenient’ facts – I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
Being a teacher was great, but it wasn’t what I wanted to do, so it was ultimately crushing.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
Success is a lousy teacher, but failure is a friend, philosopher, and guide.
I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports – he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.
Consistency is always the best teacher.
My father’s a preacher, my mother’s a teacher, thus I rhyme.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
