Teachers Quotes · Page 32

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my…

— Jerry Lewis

“We should always respect our teachers, because transforming children into knowledge-oriented young people is a precious and extremely difficult job.”

— Eraldo Banovac

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now…

— Taylor Mali

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

— Orson Scott Card

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the…

— Ellen Key

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

— Frederick Lenz

One can say, 'Teach me what you know,' but the better request is, 'Teach me about what teaches you.'

— Malidoma Patrice Some

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it…

— Doug Collins

The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of…

— Paulo Freire

We aren't prescribing anything. We're not claiming to be the experts. We aren't advocating for or against any program. We are going…

— Charles Best

“[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the…

— Linda Sue Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was…

— Barbara Park

“Research suggests that teachers who use more progressive or project-based learning techniques are more satisfied in their roles than teachers who use…

— Sylvia Libow Martinez

I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact…

— Steven Levitt

I look at Large Professor as a big influence. I grew up with him and being able to grow up with him…

— Mic Geronimo

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education,” it was said by Professor Huxley, “is the ability to make yourself do the…

— Orison Swett Marden

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

— Condoleezza Rice

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something…

— Andrew Hoberek

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

— Avi

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

— Alfie Kohn

I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I…

— Elie Wiesel

I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

— Barack Obama

“Cops and schoolteachers,” Sloan said with satisfaction. “A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the…

— John Sandford

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes…

— John Sergeant Wise

“The greatest teachers don’t just teach lessons—they inspire dreams, plant hope, and cultivate character.”

— Manuel Corazzari

Teacher : Yes Me : can I Go Use It ? Teacher : Idk Can You ? Me : I WILL SHIT…

— Zariahh Renee

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

— Anthony Horowitz

I hate when professors keep you the entire time on the first day of class. Gimme the syllabus and get me out…

— Anonymous

“Because teachers' work consists of affecting their students, they are dependent on their students both for the actual success of their work…

— Jeffrey Benson

“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These…

— Shannon L. Alder

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

— Alan Perlis

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

— Henri Lebesgue

'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the…

— Clint Smith

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

— Anonymous

Why's my name the Large Professor? Cause I milked your cow, in other words I hit your heifer.

— Extra P

“Professor Sung-bae Park taught Buddhism to primarily Judeo-Christian kids who needed one course in a world religion and could fit him in…

— John Popielaski

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

— Parker J. Palmer

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating…

— Mark Kennedy

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

— Anonymous