Teachers Quotes · Page 6

My parents were teachers.

— Katrina Adams

I want to be an activist professor.

— Tariq Ramadan

Don't trust your teachers.

— Carlo Rovelli

Who teaches the soul if not God?

— John of the Cross

We are not shooting enough professors

— Vladimir Lenin

Your educators can only be your liberators.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

— Katie Price

My mum and dad were primary schoolteachers.

— Rachel Reeves

I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I think great teachers, which coaches are, are the ones that you hear.

— Alex Dodd

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

— Ruth Beechick

“Life is like a mute tutor: it teaches via showing what we call fate”

— Ela Crain

“But I’m the professor! This is my class! Show some respect!” “Okay,”

— James Patterson

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

— Beverly Cleary

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms…

— Jill Biden

My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers…

— Curtis Mayfield

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

— John Taylor Gatto

“You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically." I knew what he was saying. We all…

— Mitch Albom

My parents are professors. My sister is a Ph.D. student. My other sister has a business.

— Wunmi Mosaku

“The situations and people in our life that cause us the most trouble are also our greatest teachers.”

— James Van Praagh

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught…

— Brian Blessed

If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is…

— Mary Beard

“But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low…

— Barack Obama

“Don't just leave your footprints in the sand only to be washed away as the ocean waves come crashing to the shore.…

— Amaka Nkosazana

When I started modeling at 15, there were no provisions for on-set tutors, and so I dropped out of school. Although I…

— Trish Goff

My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate…

— Sun Myung Moon

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind…

— Mitt Romney

“When one meets a university professor of shari’a, one gets the impression of a senior student who is but more widely read…

— Nuh Ha Mim Keller

Teachers are important in this world.

— Martin Landau

I am an educator who thinks globally.

— Paulo Freire

“Time teaches with experience”

— Sunday Adelaja

It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for.

— Pierre Soulages

If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

— Anthea Butler

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

— Samuel Richardson

I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

— Mark Lanegan

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

— David F. Swensen