There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
~By Berenice Abbott ~
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
I learned life from some good teachers.
~By Eddie Murray ~
I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
~By Nancy Cartwright ~
I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
~By Emma Stone ~
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
~By Sidney Hook ~
But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
~By William Gibson ~
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
~By Rita Dove ~
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
~By Steve Allen ~
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
~By Maria Callas ~
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
~By Jeb Bush ~
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.
~By John Podesta ~
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
~By Andy Rooney ~
Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?
~By Martin Goldsmith ~
When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'
~By Natalie Portman ~
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
~By Simone Weil ~
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~By Charles William Eliot ~
I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
~By William Glasser ~
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
~By Julien Benda ~
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
~By William Glasser ~
As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.
~By Jon Porter ~
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
~By Maya Lin ~
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
~By Haim Ginott ~
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
~By Julius Erving ~
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
~By Chi McBride ~
I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.
~By Brad Garrett ~
I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
~By Sue Grafton ~
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
~By Steve Wozniak ~
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.
~By John Redwood ~
There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
~By Estelle Morris ~
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.
~By Andrew Shue ~
How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.
~By Cecil Frank Powell ~
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.
~By Kim Il sung ~
Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
~By Albert Bandura ~
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
~By Roald Dahl ~
Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.
~By Charles Phillips ~
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.
~By Diane Cilento ~
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
~By Bill Moyers ~
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.
~By Conrad Burns ~
Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.
~By Kenny Guinn ~
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.
~By Colin Powell ~
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
~By Karl Barth ~
I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.
~By Ernest Istook ~
I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
~By Burl Ives ~
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
~By Xun Zi ~
Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.
~By Estelle Morris ~
I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
~By Sidney Hook ~
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.
~By Anton Seidl ~
There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
~By Barbara Colorose ~
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
~By Nell Carter ~
We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.
~By Jon Porter ~
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
~By Mother Jones ~
The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!
~By Dante Hall ~
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
~By Warren Beatty ~
We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
~By Donald Norman ~
We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
~By Bob Filner ~
'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.
~By Terry Prachett ~
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
~By Betty Buckley ~
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.
~By John Nelson Darby ~
Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.
~By Temple Grandin ~
I think good teachers are underpaid.
~By Peter Brimelow ~
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.
~By Andrew Shue ~
We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.
~By Trevor Phillips ~
I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
~By Kanye West ~
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
~By Frederic William Farrar ~
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.
~By John Warner ~
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
~By Thom Gunn ~
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