The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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My father’s a preacher, my mother’s a teacher, thus I rhyme.
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself – am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: ‘I am control of this and no one is telling me … Read more
The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.