It’s cool for me because I’m a director, but I’m also a teacher. I’m a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.
Jesus isn’t lettin’ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‘Good teacher’, ‘Prophet’, ‘Really nice guy’ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.
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.
No teacher ever skipped the student process… if you want to be a leader, you have to be a follower first.
My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.
To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don’t think I’m that selfless and giving.
I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can’t think of a profession I have more respect for.
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool’s sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
There’ve been times I felt like, ‘I don’t know if I want to do this.’ That maybe I should go back to school and become a special-education teacher. But I love entertaining.
You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.
I had kind of left college. I wanted to study to be a sports teacher, but I had that little inner voice within me that said, ‘You should be doing something else,’ and I followed that gut instinct.
To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world’s most advanced education technology, I’d pick the teacher any day for my own children.
Sometimes, when I’m sitting at my desk for long hours and nothing’s coming to me, I remember my fifth-grade teacher, the way her eyes lit up when she said, ‘This is really good.’
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
I’m getting certified to become a teacher because I love it so much.
I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That’s why I got turned on to charter schools. It’s a business model. Every employee and every teacher will be monitored by performance.
Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it’s unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.
My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and ‘70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. – McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans.
If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.
