Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an… — James M. Lang Copy Share Image
My dad got a job as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches biology and genetics. My dad has been obsessed… — Constance Wu Copy Share Image
True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or… — Morgan Wootten Copy Share Image
Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“Service members will only stay on active duty if they can provide for their families—and DOD schools provide a world-class education that… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“I fell in love with the young assistant professor who took me through my first poetry course. Really in love--that is, enough… — Agnes De Mille Copy Share Image
When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was… — Lisa Jakub Copy Share Image
Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers.… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I… — Joseph Gatt Copy Share Image
“Mr. Klamp laid down the law. No tardiness, no talking above 40 decibels, no untied shoelaces, no visible undergarments, no eating, no… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
“When teachers are fully successful, they are successful beyond any of their conscious intentions about particular subjects: they make converts, they make… — Wayne C. Booth Copy Share Image
“Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in… — Donna Quesada Copy Share Image
Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think… — David Small Copy Share Image
That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a… — Lowell Milken Copy Share Image
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power… — Harry Bridges Copy Share Image
“One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when… — Anne Hill Copy Share Image
We get through life and this is part of the education process also. In real life, we meet bad bosses and good… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
My grandparents and my mother were marvelous people, but they were not particularly demonstrative in their love. It was teachers who were… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
“Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
No matter how many great things you say about Jacques Pepin, there's always more. Through his books and videos, he taught me… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going… — Jim Parrack Copy Share Image
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“We can be much, much more than we were taught in teachers college... more than stern ladies at the front of the… — Jenny Bowen Copy Share Image
“Of course there are teachers who can teach a subject, in a set order, using predetermined phrases, but there aren't many who… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image