“I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.”
— Marta Kristen
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“Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.”
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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“You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.”
— Elisabeth Rohm
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“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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“The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.”
— Felix Adler
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“While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.”
— Samuel Dash
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“I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.”
— Martin Mull
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“I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.”
— Yo-Yo Ma
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“When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.”
— George J. Mitchell
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“My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.”
— Freeman A. Hrabowski III
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“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
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