Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me Duck.
If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.
I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.
Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.
Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear
When I was in high school, I was dating this girl and wanted to make her birthday really special. I showed up early to school and went around to every single one of her classes and left a rose with her teachers. Each rose had a note with a little inside joke.
As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them. ) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.
If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.
Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?