Gary Cohn Quotes

Next to my family, it seems clear to me that the educational institutions and the teachers from whom I had the privilege of learning were especially important.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

I want to pay tribute to the teachers who, during my life at school in the public education system, saw something in me and encouraged it.

Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her.

I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.