Teacher Quotes

You think when gym teachers were younger, they're thinking, "You know, I want to teach...but I don't want to read. How about kickball for 40 years?"

None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

I think I do have my own technique. I don't like to depend on teachers. So I'm walking on my own way, and I try to be as natural as I can. I think it's the only way to be yourself.

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

History is the teacher of life

Wherever you go, there’s your teacher.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.

I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).

The young don’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow