#teacher

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers. ↗

— Lance Burton

#also #always #books #came #chavez

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

#converts #different #different parts #early #father

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#commitment #dedicated #education #enthusiastic #expectations

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#children #everybody #everyone #gets #just

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#great #great teachers #i #jesuits #know

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#did #gave #good #i #latin

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything. ↗

— Carla Bley

#best #everything #go #jazz #just

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#becomes #enlightened #help #million #only

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#children #education #fails #focus #frustrates

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy. ↗

— Bill Bowerman

#basic principles #change #current #darn #differ