Teachers Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Teachers

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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
~By Norman MacCaig ~


Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
~By Simone Weil ~


Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
~By Bob Beauprez ~


You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
~By Dave Eggers ~


I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
~By Nell Carter ~


So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
~By Margaret Whiting ~


We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
~By Cathy McMorris ~


Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.
~By Chi McBride ~


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 ~


I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
~By Kyan Douglas ~


The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~


Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
~By John Doolittle ~


We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.
~By Mark Kennedy ~


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 ~


No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
~By Mike Huckabee ~


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 ~


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 ~


I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
~By Alan Hovhaness ~


I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
~By Julia Roberts ~


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 ~


Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
~By Dan Quayle ~


Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~


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 ~


At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
~By Ralph Allen ~


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 ~


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 ~


Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
~By Lucretia Mott ~


I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.
~By Scott Hamilton ~


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 ~


At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
~By Laura Linney ~


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 ~


My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
~By Taylor Dayne ~


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 ~


One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
~By Warren Farrell ~


There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
~By Helen Thomas ~


I didn't fancy any of my teachers.
~By Katie Price ~


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 ~


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 ~


Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.
~By Ken Wilber ~


I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
~By Josef Albers ~


You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
~By Dr. Seuss ~


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 ~


Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.
~By Michael N. Castle ~


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 ~


Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
~By W. S. Merwin ~


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 ~


I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~


We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
~By Major Owens ~


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 ~


Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~


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 ~


We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
~By Donald Norman ~


Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
~By Harry Bridges ~


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 ~


Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.
~By Estelle Morris ~


When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
~By Xun Zi ~


It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.
~By Wentworth Miller ~


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 ~


High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~


I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.
~By Michael Newdow ~


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 am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.
~By Estelle Morris ~


It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
~By John Bradshaw ~


Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
~By Joyce A. Myers ~


We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.
~By Shirley Williams ~


We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
~By John Sculley ~


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 ~


Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~


Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.
~By Richard Howard ~


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 ~


Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
~By Sidney Hook ~


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 ~


Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
~By Morley Safer ~


Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
~By Haim Ginott ~


I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.
~By Estelle Morris ~


Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
~By Maya Lin ~


Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~


I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~


When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
~By Ian Hart ~


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 ~


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 ~


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 ~


Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~


I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
~By Anne Sullivan ~


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 ~


We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
~By Thomas R. Cech ~


Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
~By Peter Brimelow ~


Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
~By Charles Kuralt ~


Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
~By James Anthony Froude ~


I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
~By James Levine ~


As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
~By Barry Commoner ~


We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
~By David Selby ~


Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.
~By Leonard Boswell ~


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 ~


In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.
~By Estelle Morris ~


Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.
~By Matthew Lesko ~


The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.
~By Kinky Friedman ~


I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.
~By Meg Whitman ~


The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
~By Michael Porter ~


In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
~By Steve Allen ~

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