#teacher

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?' ↗

— Natalie Portman

#called #dad #does #exactly #get

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. ↗

— Quintilian

#correcting #discourage #effort #faults #liable

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'. ↗

— Dan Rather

#begins #believes #called #dream #leads

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#brutal #god #learn #most #teachers

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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#blow #chemistry #enjoyed #explosives #hanging

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. ↗

— Maya Lin

#age #closer #some #teachers #than

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #contemporaries #great #grew #him

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#books #classroom #come #desk #heaped

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum. ↗

— Elaine MacDonald

#communication #communication skills #confidence #curriculum #effectiveness

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women. ↗

— Andie MacDowell

#i #i think #lot #sexy #teachers