Teacher Quotes

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

Certainly the principal has to be bald. Certainly the school counselor has to be bald. And the driver's ed teacher. And maybe the wood-shop teacher. Mine was.

I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.

Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga takes them down to a nine. That's me.

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn’t write my name on it, but I’m sure he figured out it was me.

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

The reality is that I am the Teacher.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his brother's remark, There's more Arabs in this country than there is Jews! Those offended include Arabs, Jews, and English teachers.

This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though, as a compromise, dinosaurs are now called Jesus Horses.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.