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“I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity to thank teachers who have influenced me. I encourage everyone to seize opportunities to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.”

People Way Made Opportunity Memories Teacher Influence Sweet Encouragement Blessed Seize The Opportunity Sweet Memories

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”

“Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.”

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories - of which I don't have any left to be honest, I can just remember a sense of tedium - have faded. And teachers that I liked have remained quite vivid. There are three or four left.”

Long I Can Enough Feelings Reality School Remember Three Left Memories Gone Teacher Four Honest Being Honest Vivid Funny Things Faded Tedium Bad Memories

Author:Colin Firth

“When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.”

Ifs Trying Littles Made Character Use Remember Used Order Bits Memories Teacher Cry Tears Scene Creating Little Bit Theater Remember Something

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.”

Knows World May Said Whole Memories Focus Teacher Our Lives Whole World Right Time Influential Snaps

Book:Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)

Source: Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)