Teachers Quotes · Page 30

Our students need additional support. They need smaller class sizes. They need tutors. They need after-school programs.

— Miguel Cardona

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“Life is a shrewd teacher, hardship is an unfriendly lecturer, death is a pessimistic professor, and eternity is an illuminated philosopher.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad…

— Confucius

“A genius teacher loses time with a mediocre student! A genius student experiences the same thing with a mediocre teacher!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“it occurred to me that teachers are the consummate knowledge workers, yet they were being treated like manual workers.”

— Deborah Kenny

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to…

— Sonny Perdue

Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it…

— Mary J. Miller

Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their…

— Ron Rubin

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread…

— Christopher Hitchens

Appreciating teachers means transforming the way we think about education and the way we design curriculums. It means protecting the rights of…

— Jamaal Bowman

At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that classroom teachers often know their students better than anybody else in the system and that their front-line…

— Charles Best

“It's strange how teachers can go off to college for all those years to learn to become teachers, but some of them…

— Matthew Dicks

“Of course, it’s not that I really work there. Dorian, like many other colleges, pays a horde of part-time teachers to do…

— John Donohue

“My specialty is cultural anthropology,” the Professor said. “I gave up being a scholar some time ago, but I’m still permeated with…

— Haruki Murakami

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.

— Temple Grandin

We must empower educators to provide the best learning environment possible for students.

— Jamaal Bowman

“Every teacher was once a student, so respect each student because it is always possible for an ordinary seed to become a…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human…

— Robert Muller

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.

— Anonymous

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We all have that one teacher who's like: 'Don't pack up yet. There's still 11 seconds of class left...'

— Anonymous

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring…

— Alfred Adler

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who…

— Andy Rooney

Teachers need to have the capacity to spot those that are struggling early on and intervene.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be…

— G-Eazy

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

— H. L. Mencken

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

— Maria Montessori

Teachers deserve more respect than many give them, and more opportunities than the system affords them today.

— Betsy DeVos

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

— Erin Cummings

“In a healthy education, two sides should have the right teachers and students if the right of one of them is marginalized,…

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Teacher: Where is your homework? ME: I lost it fighting with kid who said you werent the best teacher in school.

— Anonymous

In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just…

— James Franco

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

— Quintilian

“Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as…

— Ross W. Greene

I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag…

— Jennifer Hudson

The thing that was great about San Jose State was, I got connected with some very good professors.

— Brian Krzanich

“Teachers should teach people about the laws of the Universe, love, healthy life My VISION about the FUTURE No Healers, No Doctors,…

— Slobodan Boban Manic