Teacher Quotes
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.
Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
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.
Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
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.
That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.
From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.
God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.
Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.
I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!
I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.
I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.
Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.
I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.
I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma.
Joe Wright was almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.
What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.
Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.
Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
There's always one teacher you had a crush on; for me, it's my wife's aerobics instructor.
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
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.
My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
