A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
Chris Christie
FamilyHealthTeacherVisionMedical
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
TeacherOpinionsTrueAimMindsOwn
Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.
Nancy Gibbs
TeacherServiceBarack ObamaWants
There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.
Tom Vilsack
TeacherJobSchoolChildBetterGo
I started out as a drummer, and when I was 9, my drum teacher had an album out. He was the rudiment king! He signed it for me, 'Rudimentally yours, Frank Arsenault.' How cool is that?
Rick Nielsen
TeacherKingMeCoolDrummerOut
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
James Cash Penney
WorkTeacherJobKnowGreatest
I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.
Johann Lamont
TeacherTimeRidiculousVolunteer
I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.
Chrissy Teigen
TeacherMyselfFoodThoughtEnough
If you're not doing something right, you can feel it on stage, and if it isn't going well, the audience will tell you. A teacher can teach you sense memory and this and that, but until you get in front of an audience, you don't really feel it.
Fred Willard
TeacherMemoryFeelDoingYouWill
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
Major Owens
WorkTeacherPeopleWaitEnough
I can't explain something I saw on holiday on Holy Island when I was about nine years old, but do you know what, it could have been my PE teacher dressed in a monk's habit. I have no idea. I'm not a ghost person... it doesn't mean there aren't unexplained things; I just don't think they're ghosts.
Tom Goodman-Hill
TeacherHabitThinkYouHoliday
Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.
Richard LaGravenese
FreedomTeacherBestSchoolBelieve
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'
Jacqueline Woodson
TeacherLieYouDownTroubleSay
I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.
Jenn Proske
LifeTeacherSchoolMomHigh School
To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.
Chris Parnell
TeacherPersonalityThinkSelfless
No matter how good a teacher is, if that teacher won't play as part of the team, you're better off without her.
Eva Moskowitz
GoodTeacherTeamBetterYouPlay
When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
Madi Diaz
TeacherSongToolsYouRulesHand
I never want to be a film director - I want to be a teacher.
Rithy Panh
TeacherWantNeverDirectorFilm
Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.
Nithya Menen
TeacherActingBecomeOffBeenGlad
Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
Keith Emerson
GoodGood TeacherChildrenTeacher
I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.
Andy Andrews
LearningSuccessTeacherI AmI Can
For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.
Colson Whitehead
FamilyFriendTeacherMomentMeYou
I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public school teacher, a professor, and a United States Senator. America is truly a country of opportunity!
Elizabeth Warren
DaughterOpportunityTeacherSchool
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
Laura Esquivel
TeacherSchoolLearnRealizeServe
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