#teacher

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#gay #high #junior #junior high #man

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#art #below #describe #gay #greenwich

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ↗

— Dan Savage

#baking #class #even #found #front

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#finish #five #get #glad #grades

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#could #example #going #gotten #important

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#becoming #day #fantasy #i #involved

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#authorities #beyond #common #common sense #convinced

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. ↗

— Nina Simone

#concert #concert pianist #dedicate #his #i

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