Teacher Quotes

It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what's inside of you.

Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

There's always one teacher you had a crush on; for me, it's my wife's aerobics instructor.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

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.

Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

... 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.

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.

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

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.

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.

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.

Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching.

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.

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.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

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 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 was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

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.

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.