Teachers Quotes · Page 32

Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days…

— Laura Moser

I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag…

— Jennifer Hudson

My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant…

— Maya Angelou

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of…

— Vivek Wadhwa

On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.

— Adam F. Goldberg

After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying…

— Ronnie Musgrove

“Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors. ”

— Simone Weil

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an…

— Pete Seeger

Some teachers used to worry and ask me, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?'

— apl.de.ap

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

— Poppy Z. Brite

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

— Gerry Schwartz

All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to…

— Bobby Knight

“You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

— Fred W. Friendly

My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.

— Peter Carey

We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the…

— Rod McKuen

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

— Kevin James

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

— John Barth

“Millennials (aka Generation Y) are great at social media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter,Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, and Periscope) but…

— Ramesh Lohia

Professor Macleod, in his remarks, gave everything that I was going to say and used the pronoun 'we' throughout. The following day,…

— Frederick Banting

“I always knew the teachers were out to get me.”

— Amy Joy

“Do all the work you while you still have strength.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at…

— Alfred Adler

It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

— David Grinspoon

It is very good to see thousands of new teachers, so that with our thoughts, we can gradually change the world -send…

— Dharma Mittra