“I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.” MadeImportantSchoolLiteratureInterestingClassEnvironmentTeacherHigh SchoolEnjoyedInteractionEnglish Literature Author:Ellen Ochoa
“Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.” NeedsInterestingTeacherEngineering Author:Bruce Dickinson
“Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.” WantShouldAbleHoursInterestingHalfTeacherGroupsSubjectsStudentsPerspectiveConversationProfessionFriendlyInteresting Conversation Author:William Glasser
“I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.” InterestingNumbersTeacherInfluenceSmartStrongestGreat TeacherReally Smart Author:Meryl Streep
“Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world, what Stevens called a 'mundo' and it takes a lot of time to orientate oneself in such a world. What we have to learn to do then, as teachers and militants of a poetic insurgency, is to encourage people to learn to love the difficulty of poetry. I simply do not understand much of the poetry that I love.” PeopleWorldMeanReadingDifficultInterestingTeacherPoetDifficultyOneselfPropagandaPoetry IsPoeticDiscoveringInsurgency Author:Simon Critchley
“I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult.” LooksPlayCharacterWould BeFilmStuffDifficultInterestInterestingBoysAudienceTeacherNeededGuiltInstanceFormerDramaticTensionMain Characters Author:Philippe Falardeau
“They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know; that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.” ThinkingKnowsMayHas BeensCharacterSchoolAnswersInterestingTeacherBeatsEthicsCatholicEducatedWork EthicCatholic School Author:William Mapother
“I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me, "Hey, there's this guy Basho you would find interesting," and so I found Basho. A fiction teacher told me, "You ought to read Clarice Lispector if you're interested in that sort of in-between stuff," and then Lispector appeared. It's not magic. You just keep your eyes open.” PeopleIfsSaidEyeGuyAsksFoundStuffMy OwnInterestingFictionClassTeacherMagicOughtOne DayHeyGenerousProfessorsThis Guy Author:John D'Agata
“One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it.” PeopleMaySpiritualForceAbilityInterestingKnownTeacherIncrediblesDrivingCharacteristicsCompassionateGreat TeacherExertionDriving Force Author:Sakyong Mipham