Teachers Quotes · Page 4

Teachers know how to improve education.

— Charles Best

“Troubles teaches what must be taught.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Did one learn or was one shaped?”

— Paul Russell

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!

— Tae Yun Kim

I was close with some of my old professors.

— Jon Tenney

I don't consider myself an educator.

— Adam Conover

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

— Marva Collins

We educators stand at a special point in time

— Robert J. Marzano

America's best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.

— Charles Best

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

— Paulo Freire

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

— Deborah Wiles

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

— Albert Einstein

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

— Plato

“These other armies, they aren’t the enemy. It’s the teachers, they’re the enemy.”

— Orson Scott Card

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

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They…

— Tia Carrere

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of…

— Taylor Mali

“Some educators even repeat the old saw that “I learn as much from my students as they learn from me!” (With due…

— Thomas M. Nichols

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better…

— Thomas Friedman

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them…

— Winston Churchill

“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only…

— Louis L'Amour

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that…

— Chris Christie

Instill respect for teachers.

— Henry Louis Gates

My dad was an English professor.

— Blake Lively

I'm a big fan of teachers.

— Abigail Spencer

Injuries are our best teachers.

— Scott Jurek

I think good teachers are underpaid.

— Peter Brimelow

Looking Back Teaches you Lessons:

— Ritu Ghatourey

All my heroes are teachers.

— Julien Baker

Teachers are performers, just like I am.

— Kathleen Hanna