Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler
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
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay. Jeb Bush
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. Xun Zi
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. Mary Catherine Bateson
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
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help. William Glasser
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students. Godfrey Reggio
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button. Francis Ford Coppola
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. Elizabeth Hardwick
A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions. Martin H. Fischer
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now. Mike Krzyzewski
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. Barbra Streisand
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. William Glasser
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. Robert Sternberg
I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself. Eddie Van Halen
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. Calvin Trillin
I'd like to think I'm a great teacher. Gordon Ramsay
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. Flip Wilson