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“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.”

May School Artist Turns Teacher Towns Painter Copies Honour Abandoned Imitation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.”

Doe Book Soul Country Body Culture Money Known Teacher Birth Intellectual Towns Mad Library Folks Circles Desert Grades Village Clutch Scholarly Our Town Craze Books And Music

Author:Rebecca Harding Davis

“I didn't sing for years and years, but I started playing harp when I was maybe 9 or 10. I had actually wanted to play for years leading up to that, but no teacher in our little town would take me on as a student, because I was too young.”

Years Littles Play Wanted Young Teacher Students Towns Take Me Harps Little Towns

Author:Joanna Newsom

“The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.”

Country Attention Moral Teacher Influence Example Discipline England Towns Size Iron Magician Rail Punctuality

Author:Samuel Smiles

“John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.”

Jesus Teacher Towns Lawyer Judgement Occupation Farmers Plato Small Town Insulting Abraham Carpenter Plato And Socrates

Author:Mark Sheppard

“I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town that's a "great places to raise kids" - that's basically code for "there are no adults here who are not parents." I had a few teachers who were kind of weirdo drama teachers and were hugely influential.”

Kind Kids Parent Teacher Grew Drama Grew Up Adults Towns Raises Code Forty Influential Weirdo

Author:Meghan Daum

“When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.”

People Thinking Term My Own Teacher College Towns Conservative Boxes Brilliant Small Town Upbringing Sixteen Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Ronee Blakley

“My mom was my English teacher in high school. So to be able to bend the rules and be the class clown and get to take on my religion, my mom, and my town all at the same time was glorious. I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit. If you're cracking a joke in school, it's sort of anti-authority, but it's in the nicest, "Please like me!" way.”

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Author:Paul Rust

“The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.”

People Jesus Teacher Teaching Exciting Towns Profession Nursing Great Depression Indianapolis

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.”

Littles Stars Teacher Tvs Towns Restaurants Being A Teacher

Book:The Uncoupling: A Novel

Source: The Uncoupling: A Novel

“I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12”

Sports Teacher Dad Ten Towns My Dad Nine Grades Gym Gym Teacher

Author:January Jones