Teacher Quotes

You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.

The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.

I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher.

We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.

I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles.

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

Democracy, like life, is hard to learn and doesn't have a teacher.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.

The teacher is the only one worth listening to.

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

Paul Gleason played the teacher. I just tortured him as best I could. 'Cause he wasn't one of the kids, you know, so it was okay. He was great.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.

The only way to being a better teacher is time and dedication.

There's no need to be fearful when another person succeeds. In fact, joining forces and supporting fellow teachers (or co-workers) you believe in is one of the most empowering moves you can make.

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.

I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our childrens lives.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

I wanted to be a teacher. My dad was a teacher.

Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers th' goods.

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.