“It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.”
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“I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.”
“I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.”
“Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.”
“My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.”
“They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.”
“I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.”
“A good teacher is a determined person.”
“Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?”
“As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.”
“My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.”
“I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.”
“I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.”
“I have to be a teacher to my daughters.”
“The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.”
“I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'”
“I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.”
“My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.”
“Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.”
“Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.”
“I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.”
“Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.”
“Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.”
“I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.”