I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.
My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.
I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
I was the worst teacher you have ever imagined - not that we did not have fun. We had a ton of fun. We just did not learn any scripture. I would think all week long what could I talk about on Sunday, and then I would scramble on Saturday to find some kind of scripture to go with it. This was my teaching.
I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like jazz. Once you learn to play anything, you can break the form and go and do something even bigger.
My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.
I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.
I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.