I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
~By Nancy Cartwright ~
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 ~
My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
~By Mother Jones ~
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 ~
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 ~
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
~By A. Bartlett Giamatti ~
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 ~
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 ~
Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.
~By Chi McBride ~
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 ~
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 ~
Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
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 ~
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 ~
Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
~By Peter Brimelow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
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 ~
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
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 ~
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.
~By Julie Bowen ~
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
~By Haim Ginott ~
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
~By Maya Lin ~
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 ~
The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
~By Sidney Hook ~
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
~By Mackenzie Astin ~
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
~By Woody Allen ~
We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.
~By Trevor Phillips ~
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 ~
I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.
~By Estelle Morris ~
In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
I didn't fancy any of my teachers.
~By Katie Price ~
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
~By Michael Porter ~
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 ~
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
~By Bill Moyers ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed.
~By Morgan Spurlock ~
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
~By Maria Montessori ~
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
~By Luc Ferrari ~
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 ~
I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.
~By Yvonne Strahovski ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
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 ~
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.
~By Tim Robbins ~
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.
~By Graham Coxon ~
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 ~
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
~By Bell Hooks ~
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
~By Meg Cabot ~
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 ~
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 ~
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
~By Warren Beatty ~
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
~By Steve Allen ~
The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
~By Catharine Beecher ~
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.
~By John Olver ~
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
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 ~
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
~By Joyce A. Myers ~
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 ~
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 ~
So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
~By Donald Norman ~
I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
~By Lance Burton ~
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 ~
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.
~By Jill Scott ~
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 ~
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 ~
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