Teachers Quotes · Page 27

Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole…

— Michael Gove

There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous…

— Lauren Stamile

I'm pretty sure 'Nutty Professor' will happen to me at some point. And when it does, I will go to the gym.

— Priyanka Chopra

This country hates professors. It likes Toby Keith - 'I'm gonna put a boot in their ass.' If you don't do that,…

— Bill Maher

Life & Time Are The Worlds Best Teachers. Life Teaches Us The Use Of Time & Time Teaches Us The Value Of Life.

— Anonymous

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the…

— Bellamy Young

If you've been in drama school for eight years, you've got teachers in your head all the time.

— Jonathan Majors

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

— John Dewey

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have…

— Tracy Kidder

I know from my experiences in life that educators had an enormous impact and influence on me. And fortunately or unfortunately, I…

— Gary Cohn

One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person;…

— Robert Audi

“Union leaders essentially want the public to believe that all teachers are equal and deserve to be paid and treated that way—but…

— Glenn Beck

I'm the oldest of four children, and when I was young, I used to get the blackboard out and make my brothers…

— Lucy Davis

Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come from money, and…

— Megyn Kelly

I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater…

— Audra McDonald

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

— Carl Sandburg

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

— Jeb Bush

Prison was tough on me. I saw people in prison that made me ashamed I was a human being. Some make Qaddafi…

— Evel Knievel

“I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the…

— Gerry Abbey

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just…

— Ken Robinson

“Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator.”

— Randy Pausch

If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

— Merle Dandridge

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and…

— Jim Hunt

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

— Niall Ferguson

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

— Andy Hargreaves

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have…

— Sandra Cisneros

I want to pay tribute to the teachers who, during my life at school in the public education system, saw something in…

— Gladys Berejiklian

One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more…

— Oren Etzioni

“Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient…

— Abhijit Naskar

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

— Brian Francis

That awkward moment when you see one of your old teachers walking around a store holding hands with one of your old…

— Anonymous

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Professor? Is that like doctor'? What are you here for? Did she get you in to have a look at me?"

— Tom Riddle

Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.

— Frederick Lenz

“To sustain the value of education, students should be respected as much as the teachers.”

— Amit Kalantri

Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have…

— Ellen McLaughlin

Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care.…

— Michael Hersch

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

— Kurt Vonnegut

As a father, husband of a schoolteacher and governor of Louisiana, I am committed to improving education for all children in Louisiana.

— John Bel Edwards