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Quotes About Tutor

I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn't act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
~ Sam Heughan
she was never to be allowed to exchange a word with him; and that she was forbidden to pay him a visit even when he was ailing. He was quarantined from her as if she had been suffering from the plague. She was actually forbidden to converse with Simon the shoemaker, the boy's tutor, from whom she might have gleaned a little information about her son. His seclusion from her was to be unconditional and absolute.
~ Stefan Zweig
She explained how, during her years of exile in France, she and her cousin Claudette had shared a private tutor. He was a man in his fifties, a bit of a tippler, who affected literary airs and boasted of being able to recite Virgil's Aeneid in Latin without an accent. The girls had nicknamed him "Monsieur Roquefort
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
~ William Shakespeare
Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like.
~ Rolf Harris
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
The elite private tutor is typically ivy-educated and falls into one of two categories - a twenty-something pursuing an artistic career on the side, or someone older who has made a career out of college-prep. They are presentable, well-spoken, and are treated by doormen as guests more than as employees.
~ Eliot Schrefer
Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
~ Laura Moser
I went to public and state schools - not at the same time. I did my art foundation course at Harrogate College of Arts. This brilliant tutor suggested I apply to Central Saint Martins. I adored it.
~ Giles Deacon
Deep-learning will transform every single industry. Healthcare and transportation will be transformed by deep-learning. I want to live in an AI-powered society. When anyone goes to see a doctor, I want AI to help that doctor provide higher quality and lower cost medical service. I want every five-year-old to have a personalised tutor.
~ Andrew Ng
I'm homeschooled with a private tutor.
~ Danielle Bregoli
I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.
~ Mark Lanegan
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
Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.
~ Jesse Kellerman
My parents had the plan for my life from the moment my mother tested positive with me. Looking back now, I'd say the hard turn for me was when I left school after the eighth grade to play tennis full time and study some with a travelling tutor.
~ Douglas Brunt
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
As her tutor you have a duty to keep her in ignorance.
~ Tom Stoppard
This student takes practice tests and then lies to him about her score. He is supposed to tutor her on what she doesn't know, but she can't tell him the truth about what she doesn't know!
~ Carol S. Dweck
High time he had another tutor,' said Larry. 'You leave the house for five minutes and come back and find him disembowelling Moby Dick on the front porch.' 'I'm sure he didn't mean any harm,' said Mother, ' but it was rather silly for him to do it on the veranda.
~ Gerald Durrell
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
Five,' she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. 'Five?' Gabriel echoed blankly. 'My rating,' she said, and smiled at him. 'Your skill and technique may, perhaps, require work, but the native talent is certainly there. What you require is practice.' 'And you are willing to be my tutor?' 'I should be very insulted if you chose another,' Cecily said, and leaned up to kiss him again.
~ Cassandra Clare
Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.
~ Fidel Castro
I'm not a math tutor," I said. "I don't feel the need to check your work.
~ Lemony Snicket
there was almost no opinion, however nonsensical, that wasn't tolerated, at least for long enough for it to be delivered. But it wasn't just that, nor his charm nor eccentricity, his sometimes slovenly, sometimes stunning intelligence, that made him so attractive as a tutor; it was the utterly unfamiliar sensation one got, as a student, of his respect for, or at least well-performed interest in, what one thought.
~ Janet Hobhouse