Teachers Quotes · Page 36

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

— John McCain

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

— Thomas Carlyle

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

— Alex Grey

“Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind. Nobody at Padua High School fits that description.”

— David Levithan

We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).

— Seth

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

— Stephen Leacock

The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education…

— Edward Bernays

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

— Eva Moskowitz

I urge state, local, and elected officials to make sure classroom teachers have a voice in your plans and efforts to reimagine…

— Miguel Cardona

“An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a…

— Anthony Standen

I talk to teachers all the time. They tell me why they joined the profession. How they believed that they could inspire…

— Damian Green

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more…

— Ray Bradbury

As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers,…

— Rachel Hurd-Wood

Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at the public access studio.…

— Trevor Moore

I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was…

— Bronagh Gallagher

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating…

— Paulo Freire

No matter the circumstances, teachers show up each day ready to give their students every opportunity possible, and they never give up.

— Charles Best

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring…

— John Hurt

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as…

— Joseph Barrell

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

— Samuel Johnson

I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful.

— Maryanne Wolf

There are thousands of experts, creators, and practitioners around the world who have valuable knowledge to share but aren't traditional professors.

— Gagan Biyani

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a…

— Dr. Seuss

There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten…

— Bill Cosby

My teacher told me to shoot for the stars, you can be anything. I told him if I do that I would…

— Livefree2dream44

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a…

— Erich Segal

“The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing…

— David Berliner

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years…

— Eliza Dushku

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

— Elie Wiesel

There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you…

— T. K. V. Desikachar

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

— Will Richardson

Across Massachusetts, there are many talented and inspiring educators doing for their students what their predecessors did for me.

— Charlie Baker

I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that…

— Frederick Lenz

Our name is not great. It doesn't evoke anything about school or teachers. It doesn't roll off the tongue or stick in…

— Charles Best

“Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.”

— Shannon L. Alder

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

— Jonathan Kozol

“Um professor competente exerce a sua autoridade sem cair nos extremos do autoritarismo ou da permissividade.”

— António Estanqueiro

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

— Sathya Sai Baba

A little TV money, dollars for sense of humour. Scholar for my attendance like Bueller, so no use for a tutor.

— Mac Miller

I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them.

— Diane Farr