Teachers Quotes · Page 9

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.”

— Alok Jagawat

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

— Thomas Sowell

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

— Francis Ford Coppola

What's good for teachers is often times very good for students.

— Anonymous

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— Charles Best

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

— Anonymous

“Some are professors and others are possessors.”

— Lawrence Kennedy

There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate…

— Queen Latifah

I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.

— John Wells

What people need and what they want may be very different… Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things…

— Elbert Hubbard

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the…

— Raheem Jarbo

“I once had a professor who could condense an entire lecture into a can of frozen orange juice. Talk about hard to…

— Jarod Kintz

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past…

— Shannon L. Alder

PEOPLE Who Make US Feel BAD Are OUR Biggest TEACHERS. They Play VILLIAN Role To Help US Grow Up To Become SUCCESSFUL!!…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

“It's an established fact that the very few naturally gifted "born teachers" are enormously more effective than the great mass of those…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

“It is [the teacher's] business to be on the alert to see what attitudes and habitual tendencies are being created. In this…

— John Dewey

Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that…

— John Locke

I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D.,…

— Sylvia Plath

"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral…

— James MacGregor Burns

I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time…

— Theresa Breslin

I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child to…

— Seymour Papert

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

— Noam Chomsky

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

— Bill Mollison

“A kid shouldn't need a diagnosis to access help.”

— Ross W. Greene

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

— Bruce Dickinson

Accept your mistakes. They're great teachers.

— Anonymous

Teacher - he should learn as much as he teaches.

— Robert D Dangoor

Teachers should never have to want for anything.

— Quinta Brunson

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

— W. H. Auden

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

— Betsy DeVos

Teachers tell me that they'd like to work more closely with parents.

— Jim Knight

My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies.

— Gillian Flynn

There are certain teachers who shouldn't be teachers.

— Tenzin Palmo

“I beg you, help me, in angelic charity, Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Even ruins are teachers, if we listen to what fell.”

— Lawrence Nault

My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.

— Kelly Cutrone

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

— Randy Pausch