Teacher Quotes

Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.

My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals.

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldnt call on me.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

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

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and faith in the hearts of their children.

The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales.

I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself.

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

That teacher teaches best who teaches least.

Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'

If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two of you will meet because you are looking for each other.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

Life is the great teacher.

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.