“The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.”
— Harold Bloom
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“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
— Lee Iacocca
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“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.”
— Chinua Achebe
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“Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.”
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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“My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.”
— Rory Bremner
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“I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.”
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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“Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.”
— Yoko Ono
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“I have to be a teacher to my daughters.”
— Carnie Wilson
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“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
— Albert Einstein
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“There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 – and 11,000 higher than 1997.”
— Estelle Morris
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“When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.”
— Beverly Cleary
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