Teacher Quotes · Page 36

[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she…

— Nat Hentoff

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows…

— Margaret Spellings

I was seventeen and the star of my high school play. I was supposed to kiss my leading man, but I couldn't…

— Donna Mills

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves…

— Carl Jung

The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no…

— Chinua Achebe

Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the…

— Michael Gurian

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

— Seymour Sarason

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using…

— Byron Katie

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.

— Erich Schiffmann

I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for…

— James Alison

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education…

— Gaylord Nelson

The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.

— George Muller

A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn…

— Frederick Lenz

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for…

— Murray Rothbard

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have…

— Howard Gardner

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional…

— Daniel Goleman

There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers…

— Immanuel Kant

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

So what I liked about Zen was that it never goes off into the realm of imagination land, or if it does…

— Brad Warner

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk…

— Didi Conn

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place…

— Anonymous

Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her…

— Alfie Kohn

The best teacher is an audience. The ideal performance is when that group of strangers sitting in the dark gets energy from…

— Glenda Jackson

I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on…

— Eugen Herrigel