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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
Teacher

"Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every story in the end, if it is good, tells us something. This is actually what I meant when I said a novelist is a teacher. Which is why I am constantly dealing with "didactic". Now a teacher in the sense I use it is not somebody who has the profession of standing in front of children, with a piece of chalk in his hand scribbling on the blackboard. That is not the teacher I have in mind. The teacher I have in mind is something less tangible."

Children Art Teacher
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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Teacher

"Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great."

Needs Teacher Support
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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Teacher

"A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away."

Teacher Inspiration Motivation
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Wendy Davis Politician
Teacher

"Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art."

Art School Teacher
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Teacher

"It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult."

School Teacher College
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Ray Bradbury Author
Teacher

"You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices."

Writing Teacher College
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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
Teacher

"I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching."

Children Teacher Education
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Teacher

"Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty."

Teacher Education Thank You
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Rene Marie Singer
Teacher

"My ex-husband has been one of my best teachers, and I believe that the areas of our life and the people in our lives that present the most problems to us - they really are our best teachers. They're teaching us lessons that we have to learn anyway, and if we don't accept the lesson from them, there will just be another teacher to step in and take their place."

Believe Teacher Husband
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Seth Musician
Teacher

"We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers)."

Teacher Individual Boss
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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
Teacher

"I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off."

Teacher Summer Holiday
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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
Teacher

"If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow"

Teacher Ignorance Asking
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Robert Winston Physicist and Science Communicator
Teacher

"I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers."

School Teacher Butterfly
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