Teachers Quotes & Sayings
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Public school
teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned. —
Ann Coulter

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for
teachers' learning? —
Seymour Sarason

Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams. —
Dr. Linda Barboa

No one can give you the answer because there is no answer. —
Marty Rubin

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you. —
Gordon Korman

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds? —
B.J. Novak

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which
teachers most often misuse. —
Gilbert Highet

The teacher you need is the person you're living with. —
Byron Katie

Children are like clay in the hands of
teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior. —
Balroop Singh

Those who know how to think need no
teachers. —
Mahatma Gandhi

The deepest dependency is not of students upon
teachers, but of
teachers upon students. —
Peter Elbow

Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family,
teachers, co-workers, and other Christians. —
Monica Johnson

Be open to all
teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart. —
Ram Dass

Too many professional development initiatives are done to
teachers - not for, with or by them. —
Andy Hargreaves

Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others'
teachers. —
Ashok Kallarakkal
Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives. —
Jon Porter

The best
teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. —
Charles Henry Fowler

Every home is a university and the parents are the
teachers. —
Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send
teachers. —
Malala Yousafzai

I encourage
teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. —
Jonathan Kozol

I've talked with a lot of
teachers, classroom
teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health. —
Marsha Blackburn
Teachers are the greatest freaks on earth, ... —
Anne Frank

The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great
teachers. —
Ken Robinson

Many
teachers, especially those in more affluent communities, believe they are treated no better than a customer-service representative at a store. —
Rachel Simmons
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us. —
Andy Hargreaves

Advanced
Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes. —
Frederick Lenz

The weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple
teachers —
Nadifa Mohamed

Some
teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some
teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me. —
Jim Rohn

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever. —
Alok Jagawat

Like all good
teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ... with wordless variety ... She spells the name of Love. —
Joan Walsh Anglund

Everyone thinks that
teachers are automatically above the taught The
teachers are the taught. —
Matthew Donnelly

We're
teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people? —
Ulysses S. Grant

Modeling is the most powerful of all
teachers! —
John G. Miller

My parents were opera singers and voice
teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. —
Sandra Bullock

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English
teachers! —
Dree Hemingway

Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life. —
Amit Ray

If it were true that children mimicked their
teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around. —
Harvey Milk

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! —
E.A. Bucchianeri

Clear, direct and vibrant instructions will inject energy into the class, and create a feeling of safety for the students. —
Gudjon Bergmann

One of my former
teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity. —
Charles C. Ryrie

Great
teachers are usually a little crazy. —
Andy Rooney

A nation of unhappy
teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. —
Pat Conroy

Hunger and necessity are poor
teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed. —
A.J. Quinnell

I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their
teachers. —
Vijay Singh

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its
teachers.
Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools. —
Ken Robinson

Kids don't fail.
Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem. —
Marva Collins

Both of my parents are actually music
teachers. —
Charlie Day
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow. —
Solomon Ortiz

I didn't fancy any of my
teachers. —
Katie Price

Let the main object ... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which
teachers may teach less, but learners learn more. —
John Amos Comenius

If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with
teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it. —
Chris Crutcher
Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting. —
Bruce Dickinson

I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best
teachers. —
Edmund Marlowe

I learn teaching from
teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches. —
Harvey Penick

I believe government should be loyal to parents,
teachers and children. —
J. C. Watts

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a.
teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases. —
Peter Brimelow

Can
teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if
teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves? —
Diane Ravitch

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when
teachers themselves are taught to learn. —
Bertolt Brecht

Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan served this country well, he did not celebrate his birthday, he celebrated it for
teachers. —
Narendra Modi

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

Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best
teachers. —
Christiane Northrup

History is the most patient of
teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it. —
Christian Adam Ribeiraud

The argument could be made that the word 'hero' is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to
teachers. —
Steve Maraboli
Teachers need to be paid like professionals. —
Geoffrey Canada

The quality & morale of
teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning. —
Andy Hargreaves

I do remember a lot of
teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that. —
Jonas Armstrong
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems. —
David Perkins

My main
teachers were my father and my mother and my brother. —
Jeff Bridges

Oh, yeah, any functioning society has got to have its doctors, its
teachers, and its nightlife photographers. —
Leila Sales

How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different" ... —
Robert Reed

Every great soul had great mentors. —
Lailah Gifty Akita

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble
teachers. —
Albert Einstein

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens. —
Steve Goodier

there is no such thing as patient wisdom to be found in the sharp agony of the
teachers. —
Morrissey

I remember
teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. —
Francis Ford Coppola

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding
teachers. —
Alma Gluck