Teacher Quotes · Page 78

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

— Sathya Sai Baba

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

— Jim Henson

My grandfather was a history teacher, one reason the subject has been an integral part of my life.

— Sudha Murty

The awkward moment in class when everybody is quiet and your friend and you are the only retards talking.

— Anonymous

I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.

— Sunny Hostin

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.

— Dan Rather

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

— Jonathan Kozol

I have not decided if I want to be a teacher or an actor, because I like both of them.

— Yalitza Aparicio

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten…

— Andrew Shue

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

— Barbara Bush

Gul Makai' is a story of a brave heart and a gentle advocate of peace who fought for her right to go…

— Divya Dutta

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the…

— Willard Wigan

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while…

— Elliot W. Eisner

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

— Kate DiCamillo

Dear students , I know when your texting in class, Sincerely no one looks at there crotch and smiles, -sincerely your teacher ! -

— Anonymous

When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love…

— Taylor Mali

My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...]…

— Toni Morrison

Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two…

— Charles M. Schulz

..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and…

— Yukio Mishima

Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it…

— Stephen Batchelor

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I…

— Valerie Simpson

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal…

— Lin Yutang

“Your teachers Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken…

— Octavia E. Butler

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the worldÂ’s torrent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We are all born almost Deaf, Dumb and Blind; trial and error have, thus far, been our best teacher.”

— Balan Gothandaraman

When my teacher gets pregnant? Normal people: 'Oh my God! Congratulations!' Me: 'My teacher had sex?'

— Anonymous

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

— Kathryn Budig

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

— Margaret Mead

“Every time you say blah blah blah, a creative writing teacher dies.”

— Michael Lopp

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

— Louis L'Amour

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

— R. H. Tawney

When my fricken cert 2 teacher keeps touching me fuck off fucking creep OMG

— Talyiah

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

— David F. Swensen

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school,

— Christian Louboutin

In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.

— Prince Andrew

I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job.

— Elizabeth Fraser

A skilled teacher and a few good books can always cure ignorance.

— Vikrant Parsai

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

— Dizzy Dean

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

— John Dewey