Teacher Quotes · Page 118

“I learned that teachers are the enemy. Not that I disliked all my teachers—I actually liked quite a few—but I learned that…

— Trevor Eissler

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

— David Gergen

I didn't take it seriously myself at the time, but now all of my old teachers are supportive. Even my principal -…

— Tinie Tempah

Only do what your teacher says but not what he does.

— Vikrant Parsai

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

— Jack Kerouac

So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.

— John B. Goodenough

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

— Barbara Park

“He did it with a teacher's natural assumptions: lecturing was his responsibility, interruption his privilege.”

— Stephen King

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had…

— Chuck Close

“Teachers often fail students by complimenting the successful students and ignoring those who do not prove as successful. Teachers need to embrace…

— Asa Don Brown

'Teachers Lounge' is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn 'Lounge' into a…

— Ted Alexandro

Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

— Linda Darling-Hammond

Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there…

— Monica Johnson

Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere…

— Maimonides

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is…

— Jon Secada

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising…

— Jeb Bush

The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing…

— Albert Schweitzer

A great teacher makes hard things easy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

— Samuel Johnson

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do…

— Alice Waters

Teacher: I beautiful. What tense is this? Student: obviously past tense.

— Anonymous

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

— Bertrand Russell

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

— Jerome Bruner

My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models,…

— David C. Driskell

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids'…

— Jay Nixon

I'm one of those people who're good at everything but I'm not great at anything. I thought I'd be a chef or…

— Jesse Lacey

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.

— Beth Ditto

Let your Teacher be Love itself.

— Rumi

Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were…

— Oliver DeMille

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books…

— George Polya

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the…

— Richard Bach

Mom was a school teacher, and she had to be at work at 7:30 every morning. So Dad was in charge of…

— Ainsley Earhardt

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

— Chris Christie

“My doggy ate my homework. He chewed it up," I said. But when I offered my excuse My teacher shook her head.…

— Dave Crawley

The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

— Kinky Friedman

We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That…

— Dean Ornish

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in…

— Stephen Neill

Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

— Madi Diaz