Teacher Quotes · Page 56

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

— Dean Smith

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

— Alice Oswald

Love finds a way.My teacher used to insult me because I always miss U.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Betta ask My Teacherz Im Uh Bully Yu Juss Anotha Police !

— Webbie

“There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.”

— Amit Ray

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

— Albert Einstein

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

— Omar Dorsey

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

— Diana L. Eck

Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers),…

— Graham Swift

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your…

— Jeanine Basinger

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because…

— F. Sionil Jose

You yourself are the Teacher, and the Pupil, you're the Master, you're the Guru, you are the Leader, you are Everything! And,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world,…

— David Brooks

It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very…

— Frederick Lenz

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and…

— Dennis Quaid

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them,…

— Michael Johnson

Teachers give so much to the future and to youth. So, when you see somebody make that type of sacrifice towards work…

— Common

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

— Alfie Kohn

But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner…

— J. I. Packer

Before my class I saw my students were unusually moody. I asked why? A little girl stood up and said: Teacher can…

— Noble Yabi

I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I…

— Vera-Ellen

“First, the subjects we teach are as large and complex as life so our knowledge of them is always flawed and partial.…

— Parker J. Palmer

I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced…

— Sandra Cisneros

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be…

— Anonymous

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

— Alexander the Great

With 'Dancing with the Stars,' they miraculously send your dance teacher with you wherever you need to be.

— Susan Lucci

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

— Deborah Wiles

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

— Anonymous

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

— Milos Forman

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

— Arne Duncan

I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.

— Abby Lee Miller

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Orson Scott Card

“I guess teachers don’t actually live and sleep at the school.”

— Brad Collins

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz”

— Anonymous

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

— Michael Gurian

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

I used to be a teacher. I miss the kids and the camaraderie, but it was a lot of pressure.

— Lucy Beaumont