Teacher Quotes

FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said p/ "That definition's just."/ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ "Force is not might but must!"

You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.

I signed up with Kundalini yoga teacher training, which has been shifting me in some really beautiful ways.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, I'm like: "Oh, you know what? I'm going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!"

If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

My teachers were often very eccentric.

Every parent is a teacher... But not all parents teach.

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.

I wished that teachers were the highest paid people in Israel.

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua.

The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.