Teachers Quotes · Page 34

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

— Evan Esar

Who else pretends to be interested in a teacher's personal life just to waste time in class?

— Anonymous

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

— Pierce Brosnan

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they…

— Danny McBride

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is…

— Ken Robinson

A really large number of teachers contact us offline testifying how valuable iPads are for their students.

— Charles Best

“Once teachers can forget how a class should be they can discover each year what it must be like with that specific…

— Herbert R. Kohl

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag…

— Kathy Reichs

My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was…

— Brendan Myers

Professor Macleod, in his remarks, gave everything that I was going to say and used the pronoun 'we' throughout. The following day,…

— Frederick Banting

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Education is not just a qualification. Education is a state of mind. I think that is what is amiss amongst those who…

— Anonymous

“Some of us Teachers who consider ourselves to be smarter than our students will realise how worthless we are if we ever…

— Rachitha Cabral

The names Lillian Smith, Eric Dazey, Jon Bullock, and Clari Higginson may mean nothing to most people but the mean the world…

— Robert Cheeke

Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines…

— Joan Robinson

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not…

— May-Britt Moser

'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'

— Jane Fallon

“thus educators learn about teaching subjects but not about the essential importance of connected relationships to the learning process of young human…

— Gordon Neufeld

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will…

— Daniel Keyes

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

— Dean Smith

“Educators by the same token must cast their teaching in behavior rather than feelings toward their students.”

— Dr. Brian Ogawa

I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.

— Randy Pausch

“And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook…

— John Owen

When I'm wrong, I'm learning. When I'm in-between, I'm learning. And when I'm right, I'm learning. Life is my teacher.

— Anonymous

Good teachers must inspire children to work hard - make projects and give them good marks even if genuine projects look crude…

— Arvind Gupta

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor…

— Condoleezza Rice

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

— Hill Harper

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

“Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind. Nobody at Padua High School fits that description.”

— David Levithan

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

— Alex Grey

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

— Thomas Carlyle

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

— John McCain

Educators don't necessarily have to teach. Instead, they can provide an environment and resources that tease out your natural ability to learn…

— Suman Rai

“Of course the teachers want you medicated. Most of them are monsters. They don’t want you seeing them for what they are.”

— Rick Riordan

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

— Mackenzie Astin

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a…

— Tyler Hilton

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

— William Sloane Coffin

Teachers study and learn better than students. They read before classes,teach it during classes and still go through it after classes. They…

— Egba Terry

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a…

— Dr. Seuss

There are thousands of experts, creators, and practitioners around the world who have valuable knowledge to share but aren't traditional professors.

— Gagan Biyani