Teachers Quotes · Page 8

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

— David Caruso

We must empower educators to provide the best learning environment possible for students.

— Jamaal Bowman

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Honestly, I had no idea how to respond. My senior year of college I’d taken a seminar titled Public Education: Situations and…

— Tucker Elliot

“on that more than anything else. But crazy pants Professor aside,”

— J. Lynn

The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working…

— Quinn Shephard

“You know what I was thinking? [Ruthie] got so excited when she was spouting this ahistorical countertextual nonsense, and I caught myself…

— Orson Scott Card

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Mothers are the first professors in the school of character.”

— Hugh B. Brown

My mother was a professor of English and History.

— Sonu Sood

“Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.”

— Alice Childress

[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she…

— Nat Hentoff

“The universal mission of all educators is to let the torch of knowledge illuminate the world.”

— Eraldo Banovac

With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more…

— Dave Hickey

“You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one…

— Shannon L. Alder

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

— Maya Lin

“If she had any fucks to give about what we thought of her, she hoarded them jealously.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

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

— Mark Lanegan

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

— Nancy Cartwright

For me, 'educator' is the highest title that exists.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

— Todd Whitaker

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but…

— Adam Savage

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

— Utah Phillips

We are not shooting enough professors

— Vladimir Lenin

With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can…

— Jennifer Donnelly