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No one knew the story of Elsa Weiss. She was a respected English teacher at a Tel Aviv high school, but she remained aloof and never tried to befriend her students. No one ever encountered her outside of school hours. She was a riddle, and yet the students sensed that they were all she had. When Elsa killed herself by jumping off the roof of her apartment building, she remained as unknown as she had been during her life. Thirty years later, the

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Did you know that more than 50 million children attend public schools in the United States? A teacher helps children explore new things. Learn more about teachers in The Teacher.

Andrew Clausing is a teacher who has lost nearly everything. His wife left him. His teenage daughter hates him. He drinks too much. The only things he has are a love of teaching, his relationship as a mentor to his students, and a secret affair with another teacher who happens to be married to a state senator. When one of his female students mistakes his kindness for romantic interest, Andrew is faced with losing the few things he has left in his...

Angeles Arrien invites us to "walk the mystical path with practical feet" through the archetype of the Teacher. The Way of the Teacher is to be open to any endeavor's outcome and not to fixate upon results. Openness and non-attachment help us recover our human resources of wisdom and objectivity. We express the Way of the Teacher through our effective communication skills in all relationships. Through invocation, stories, prayer, and guided meditation,...

Directed by Oscar Nominated Jan Hřebejk (DIVIDED WE FALL, KAWASAKI'S ROSE) and loosely inspired by true events, the film is a very dark comedy about an elementary school teacher (played by Zuzana Mauréry, named Best Actress at Karlovy Vary) who uses her students to manipulate their parents for her own gain.

The last time my teacher laid a hand on me, he almost killed me. I can't believe I married that fuc*... I mean, my college professor. You think this sh*t we blandly call domestic abuse doesn't happen to someone like me, a nerd smart enough to get her PhD in her twenties and becomes a professor herself. Well, it does. But don't you dare feel sorry for me. The monster is behind bars for now, and I've moved to Forest Grove, Oregon to start fresh. Where...

In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."

A fun and heartwarming Amish rom-com where opposites really do attract.  If there is one thing Christian Ropp will not allow in his classroom-or his life-it's chaos. So why is he drawn to Ruby Glick, a woman who seems to bring mayhem wherever she goes? Christian Ropp moves to Birch Creek to accept a teaching position in the rapidly growing Amish community. He's determined to put the rambunctious school in order as well as check another task off...

From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster comes a new steamy age-gap, student-teacher forbidden romance!

He's a grumpy teacher with a chip on his shoulder. She's his much, much younger student who's completely off-limits.

Love broke me when I was a teen.

My dad not only slept with my girlfriend, but he knocked her up and made her my stepmom, too. Nearly two decades later

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