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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. -- John Locke
I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French. -- Danica McKellar
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor. -- Gene Wilder
I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child. -- Jim Knight
Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. -- Arne Duncan
Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep. -- Michael Jackson
As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study. -- Dichen Lachman
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant. -- Juvenal
So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee. -- Pythagoras
Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt, I had the best. -- Courtney Love
Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action. -- William Shakespeare
If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach. -- Deepak Chopra
If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also. -- Saint John Chrysostom
It was really cool being out on the road and doing school with my tutor over Skype or on the phone, but it can definitely be difficult. -- Jackson Guthy
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in. -- Gloria Estefan
The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly. -- Daniel Levitin
I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show. -- Candace Cameron
The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Emotions are classes in the Earth school. Some classes are about fear, and some are about love. The Universe is your tutor, and your classroom is your life. The main course in the Earth school, Authentic Power, is the same for everyone, but different students need different courses in order to complete it. -- Gary Zukav
Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. -- Isaac Watts
I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A. -- Rachelle Lefevre
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment. -- V. S. Naipaul
The only thing I didn't like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set. -- Jonathan Ke Quan
When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies. -- Anne Sebba
Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Instant access to anything is the future. So if you need a tutor or a baby sitter or a massage or any service, it's going to be instantly available, 24 hours a day, through your phone, with one click. -- Jason Calacanis
And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living. -- Brian Michael Bendis
The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school. -- Quinn Shephard
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me. -- Damien Hirst
When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be accepted. But with the talent that the show received, I was able to personally tutor dancers to amalgamate contemporary dance moves on Bollywood tracks. -- Terence Lewis
I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life. We'd go and stay for a few weeks with Dad on tour and bring a tutor with us. -- Georgia May Jagger
I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show. -- Candace Cameron
I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work with a tutor for about six hours a day. It's hard core but definitely worth it, and it's my main focus now - finishing up high school before I release my new album and apply to college. -- Joanna Noelle Levesque
I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school. -- Willow Smith
The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor. -- Martin Luther
And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
My time in the woods is time spent with a tutor on how to live. -- Chris Matakas
When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor. -- Seneca the Younger
Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us. -- Neal A. Maxwell
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. -- Vasily Smyslov
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master. -- Seneca the Younger
One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water. -- David Mamet
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor? -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude. -- Franny Billingsley

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