“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon , Descartes , Newton — these tutors of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There's certainly an issue of helping teachers to move to a new way of thinking about things, but there are also new… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
“As calls rang out the world over for new treaties and organizations to be established with the intent of preventing future wars,… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Today so many creative and devoted teachers not only have to struggle against unimaginative administrations, fearful parents, and wearied colleagues, they have… — Esmé Raji Codell Copy Share Image
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Exemplar teachers know a good day is not based on whether their students listened quietly and stayed seated in neat rows, but… — Oran Tkatchov Copy Share Image
The teachers teach the children that are going to take care of us. These are our future leaders, doctors, lawyers. So, they… — Lil Jon Copy Share Image
My ex-girlfriend said to me, 'I'm surprised at how normal you are since you were homeschooled.' But I was only homeschooled because… — Reece Thompson Copy Share Image
Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after… — Ailyn Perez Copy Share Image
In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
If you have one of the worst schools in the city, then chances are the teachers are not going to care for… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Teachers are Peter Pans in a way. It’s so easy to lose track of time. You forget that you’re getting older, because… — Phillip Done Copy Share Image
“Will non-English-speaking students start speaking English because their teachers were fired? Will children come to school ready to learn because their teachers… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“My dear young lady,' said the professor...'there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which is well worth trying.'… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Honestly, I had no idea how to respond. My senior year of college I’d taken a seminar titled Public Education: Situations and… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
“Caspian felt sure that he would hate the new Tutor, but when the new Tutor arrived about a week later he turned… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Teaching is hard. It takes a lot of skill. Not everyone who tries can do it well. We need to admit that… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
“American attitudes toward teachers are frankly incoherent. We want outstanding people to enter the field but provide little incentive to do so.… — Mark Seidenberg Copy Share Image
I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
“And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“I’m sure the driver was a great guy and all he wanted was to drive me to my hotel—but he was a… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road,… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“We teachers break our bodies to give you a shirt that you will wear in the future, to conferences, to presidential speeches,… — Pedro A. Pérez Raymond Copy Share Image
As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways...… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
“I thought, Dad. Could I go to Vietnam for you? Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image