Teacher Quotes

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

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

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.

My sister is an ER doctor and my brother is a teacher.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

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.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

The coach is first of all a teacher.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.

Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

I'm one of those people who're good at everything but I'm not great at anything. I thought I'd be a chef or a teacher.

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

Don't trust your teachers.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.

A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

Physician, heal thyself. Teacher, teach yourself.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers.

Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

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.

The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system?

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me