Teachers Quotes · Page 29

I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what…

— Eileen Pollack

You know, as a former educator, a building principal, I recognize the challenges that our educators are facing across the country, and…

— Miguel Cardona

“A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you…

— Erin Gruwell

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

Our students need additional support. They need smaller class sizes. They need tutors. They need after-school programs.

— Miguel Cardona

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Students: did you hated when your Professors gave exams, and some of the books on the class reading list they actually wrote.

— JOHN REYES

Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had…

— Bertrand Russell

“Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing,…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“pass, shaking his head slightly as if to clear it. “This guy Professor Peierls, he told me that he was convinced the…

— Gregory Benford

“Finally, after years of study and watching, I realized our teachers were not just teaching steps or imparting technical knowledge, they were…

— Jennifer Homans

I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by…

— Uzo Aduba

Those two teachers [Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann] were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction,…

— Warren MacKenzie

“All over the world there are students, teachers and parents that face serious challenges every day. They need help with real problems…

— Tucker Elliot

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from…

— Gerry Schwartz

If a celebrity is trying to look size zero for her next flick, you have to understand that it is for a…

— Mazher (@mazher50

“Sometimes our jobs as teachers is not to open their minds. Sometimes we have to thaw them.”

— Mike Murphy

“There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teach school”

— Matthew Dicks

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad…

— Confucius

“A genius teacher loses time with a mediocre student! A genius student experiences the same thing with a mediocre teacher!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Life is a shrewd teacher, hardship is an unfriendly lecturer, death is a pessimistic professor, and eternity is an illuminated philosopher.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

She is the one who lit the lamp of knowledge in my life and led me in the path of sucess

— Anonymous

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programs, or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

— Clayton Christensen

Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

— Taylor Mali

If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.

— Barack Obama

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

— Robert Grudin

“To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.”

— Maria Montessori

When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

— Seneca the Younger

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out…

— Craig Ferguson

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

— Jonathan Kozol

“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.”

— V.M.Robinson

“Educators say that every child can learn, but they understand that children learn at different rates and that some inevitably learn more…

— Diane Ravitch

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The…

— H. L. Mencken

There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun…

— Kurt Squire

Lets face it, we all had our teachers ass in our face when they were helping another student

— Anonymous

The teacher asks, why do I hear people talking? The student replies, because you... have .. ears?

— Anonymous