#teach

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#base #born #corpus #dad #determined

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#because #being #change #character #come

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#different #doing #down #into #just

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#going #keep #know #long #make

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#history #only #proletariat #revolution #school

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

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#edinburgh #i #poetry #residence #ridiculous

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