Teachers Quotes · Page 24

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

— Marguerite Moreau

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

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

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

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

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

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— António Estanqueiro

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade…

— George Stigler

My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted…

— Garry Hynes

One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are…

— Astra Taylor

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

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

“Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract…

— Ruth Ozeki

My grandparents and my mother were marvelous people, but they were not particularly demonstrative in their love. It was teachers who were…

— Deval Patrick

After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying…

— Ronnie Musgrove

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

— Jonathan Kozol

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

— Will Richardson

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

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

— Charlie Baker

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

— Elie Wiesel

“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

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

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

— Dr. Seuss

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

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

— Joseph Barrell

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

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

— Eva Moskowitz

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

— Edward Bernays

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

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

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

— Thomas Carlyle