#teacher

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#being #better #comedy #doing #i

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#asked #faulkner #great #had #know

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#attention #audience #entertainer #first #good

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity. ↗

— Steven Chu

#body #day #deal #due #falls

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#help #master #only #servants #teachers

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#just #learn #make #pleasure #reading

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#children #had #i #i think #interest

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

#circle #could #difficulty #even #first

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#characteristics #child #classmates #function #his

My parents were both high-school music teachers. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#high-school #music #parents #teachers #were