Dave Eggers | teacher
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl’s ‘James and the Giant Peach’.
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Sloane Crosley | teacher
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.
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Katherine Jenkins | teacher
Oh, stuff the critics. I don’t care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn’t brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.
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Sidney Hook | teacher
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
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Joyce Carol Oates | teacher
As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don’t really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.
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Kevin Mitnick | teacher
I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.
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Shimon Peres | teacher
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was – I wouldn’t say the ‘guru’ – but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
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