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Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you. — Stephen King

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college. — Joseph Sobran

If we want to survive this economic collapse, new mandatory school subjects should be eCommerce, Chinese, spirituality and aesthetics. — Robin Sacredfire

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. — Dan Simmons

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer - for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them. — Sydney J. Harris

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit. — Molly Ivins

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers. — Brian Herbert

I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves. — Helen Herron Taft

A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back." — James E. Myers

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. — Kevin Sorbo

A relationship is a process. If you have nothing to learn - you have a slave to teach. 's why schools are effective. — Will Advise

The school is the manufactory of humanity. — John Amos Comenius

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. — Thomas Carlyle

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. — Richard Ernst

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job. — Angela K. Bennett

Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart. — Tamara L. Chilver

It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids! — Milton Berle

Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. — Robert Reich

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life. — Ernest Dimnet

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table. — Isadore Singer

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass ... Will you?" — James E. Myers

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools. — Dennis Prager

The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching. — Richard DuFour

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds. — Malcolm X

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education. — Diane Ravitch

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching. — Salman Rushdie

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair. — Jane Lynch

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning. — Marshall McLuhan

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess. — Henny Youngman

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school. — Barbara Kruger

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese. — Shirley Hufstedler

Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building. — Narendra Modi

If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world. — Tim Fargo

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. — J. Michael Straczynski

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. — Robert Burns

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America? — Zig Ziglar

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them. — Tim Fargo

I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school. — Laura Carmichael

We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself. — Adrian McKinty

Don't make me turn on the room's ability blockers. I'm not teaching middle school here. And turn off your phones, people. — Kasie West

A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that's what she wants to do. — Earl Nightingale

Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing). — Mike Schmoker

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear. — Tanith Lee

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets. — Annie Dillard

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are. — Pat Conroy

Teaching in a village school in Nepal was a freaking piece of cake compared to teaching in my native land. — Nicholas D. Kristof

The school takes its coloring from your
own attitude, — Thomas E. Sanders

Maybe I should go back to teaching school about crazy people instead of being one. (Jim Alvin) — Patricia Briggs

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. — Pat Conroy

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn. — Vijay Dhameliya

The petty worries of the
school room must not be carried to your home or boarding place. — Thomas E. Sanders

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing. — Michael N. Castle

Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. — Suzy Kassem

I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school. — Robert Frost

Proverbs 16:3 'Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.' A great reminder when planning out the school year. — Tamara L. Chilver

Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition. — Wheeler McMillen

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was. — Dick York

I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching. — Frederick Lenz

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student. — Michael Bassey Johnson

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children. — Jeff Foxworthy

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school. — Flea

I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car. — Mary Sue Terry

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. — Ruth Beechick

My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me. — Rob Roberge

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school. — Judy Woodruff

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science. — Gregory Meeks

We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools. — David Cameron

Every child should be taught how to read, write and think. — Lailah Gifty Akita

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool. — Smokey Robinson

I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them. — Allan Dare Pearce

pencils racing across paper, a sound I like." Marisol — Eileen Granfors