I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years... view

By: Gracie Allen

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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom... view

By: Major Owens

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Those who know how to think need no teachers... view

By: Mohandas Gandhi

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I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school... view

By: Francis Ford Coppola

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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... view

By: Steven Chu

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Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me... view

By: David Guterson

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Teachers are our greatest public servants.. view

By: Solomon Ortiz

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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher... view

By: William Wordsworth

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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself... view

By: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else... view

By: Lee Iacocca

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If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did... view

By: Steve Guttenberg

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For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'.. view

By: Betty Buckley

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