#teacher

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#both #child #could #ear #fool

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#answer #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #few

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#after #ever #ever after #fairy #fairy tales

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#enlarges #his #just #matter #people

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#efficient #find #i #possible #pupil

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#any #artist #artists #arts #believe

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#approach #experiences #guide #helped #later

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#library #serve #standard #teacher #thus

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#morning person #person #really #teacher #want

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes. ↗

— John Podesta

#get #go #go home #home #i