Teacher

About Teacher

"Teacher" is a song performed by American recording artist Nick Jonas for his eponymous second studio album. It was written by Ammar Malik, Danny Parker, and Jason Evigan, and produced by the latter. It was released as the second promotional single on October 14, 2014. The song is featured in the 2015 dance video game Just Dance 2016.

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Background and composition

"Teacher" was written by Ammar Malik, Danny Parker and Jason Evigan, and produced by the latter.

The song is an 80's disco-inspired tune. “This game we're playing make me wanna break the rules”, sings Nick in the second verse. "Teacher" is a song where Nick teaches a girl he's really interested in how to properly “love”.

On October 14, 2014, "Teacher", alongside the song "Wilderness", were leaked online.

That same day they were made available in Australia on iTunes.

One day before the album's release, Jonas released a lyric video of the song. The video shows him and other people with the lyrics of the song on their bodies.

Notable quotes

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
— Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, Ch. 20, "Failure".
“When I first began teaching, I visited with a former teacher who I respected greatly. I asked him for some advice. He responded without hesitation, "A good teacher must love his students." "Love?" I queried. "Yes, love. When you come to care about each student as your very own child, then you'll become a great teacher."”
— Jeffrey Glanz, Teaching 101: Classroom Strategies for the Beginning Teacher (2004), p. 131
“Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual”
— Gordon Pask (1972) Learning Strategies and Individual Competence p. 221.
“If death is the schoolmaster, then life is our homework”
— Meditation for June 9, The Day of Mental Insistence, in the book The Secret Language of Birthdays by and Joost Elffers
“Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.”
— James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Education.
“A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.”
— Sir John Romilly, Att.-Gen. v. Warden, &c. of Louth School (1852), 14 Beav. 206.

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Teacher

Teacher

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