“I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.” AbleFallThreeHalfClassFiveTeacherApproachScared Author:Amanda Beard
“A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.” FiveTeacherTeachingMinutesStudentsWeightPeersFive Minutes Book:The 5-Minute Teacher: How do I maximize time for learning in my classroom? (ASCD Arias) Source: The 5-Minute Teacher: How do I maximize time for learning in my classroom? (ASCD Arias)
“I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.” PeopleSaidWantedMotherFatherCompanyClassFiveTeacherYeahPerformersInsurance CompaniesDance Class Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher?” MenGivingLife IsEducationFiveTeacherDevelopmentThousandHundredIndiaCreditFiftyGreat MenSalaryRupees Author:Narendra Modi
“Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.” TryingYearsFiveTeacherMoodRuinsFive YearsSixtyFive Year OldsCondomRecurringCucumbers Book:Ranting Again Source: Ranting Again
“During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.” YearsSchoolYoungCitiesPovertyFiveSawsTeacherViolenceNew YorkStudentsTaughtDrugActivityLowsAbuseStressImpactIncomeParksFive YearsSunsetNeighborhoodAffectedNew York CityClassroomDomestic ViolenceGangPublic SchoolElevenFive Year OldsSchool TeachersDrug AbuseLow Income Author:Sal Albanese
“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.” YearsDifferentMotherFatherParentReligiousChristianityFiveTeacherThirtyFive YearsTraveledNigeriaEvangelists Author:Chinua Achebe
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely
“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsPersonsMadeTwoWholeFiveTeacherNormalSightDown AndUniversityContactWonderland Author:Margaret Atwood
“I became really creative around the time I started understanding that people could be creative with music and that that was allowed. I stated taking piano lessons at age five, but I never did what my piano teacher told me to do. I would just do whatever I wanted.” PeopleAgeWantedUnderstandingCreativeFiveTeacherLessonsPianoBe CreativePiano LessonPiano Teachers Author:Michael Angelakos
“I think we're different, but we are very similar in a lot of ways, and we really complement each other in real life and on screen. Cameron [Diaz], for me, is like the teacher. And Kate's [Uptone] like my daughter. She's only five years older than my daughter, and so, I always wanted to protect her.” ThinkingWayYearsDifferentRealWantedFiveTeacherProtectDaughterScreensReal LifeFive YearsMy DaughterKateComplementCameron Author:Leslie Mann
“I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.” WayAttentionFiveTeacherPlayerStageDadLessonsGuitarMy DadGuitar PlayerBasicsAttention Span Author:Jason Aldean
“I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."” WritingWellsLooksAgeFiveTeacherWrittenSixAndrewWriting Well Author:Andrew Davies
“My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.” FirstsMotherThreeFatherFiveTeacherHearingPianistViolinistMusic TeacherHearing Music Author:Michala Petri
“It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended a regular elementary school, and I was taking piano lessons with a local teacher. I began to study composition at the Yamaha school. And I continued to study there until the age of 15.” YearsFirstsHomeAgeSchoolStudyFiveTeacherLessonsLocalsPianoFive YearsCompositionFive Year OldsElementary SchoolPiano LessonYamaha Author:Hiromi
“I think if you really put your mind to something you can do it. Five and a half years ago I couldn't stand on stage and play guitar. I didn't have enough talent as a kid to play guitar. I started really late. I hired a guitar teacher when I was in Nashville and I applied myself and stayed focused.” IfsThinkingYearsMindEnoughPlayKidsCan DoHalfFiveTeacherStageTalentLateYears AgoGuitarFocusedYou Can Do ItNashvilleHalf A Year Author:Jimmy Wayne
“Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” PeopleKnowsYearsHeartEndsDoneJobsRememberFiveTeacherHeroSixTwentiesGood ThingsSatisfiedThirtyFortySuspects Author:Andy Rooney