Teachers Quotes · Page 26

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Albert Camus

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in…

— Arne Duncan

Do up your room, light up a few candles, have pretty satin sheets and soft music playing.

— Mazher (@mazher50

“Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!”

— Gerry Abbey

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

— Edwin Moses

Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But…

— Katherine Dunham

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the…

— Tom Chatfield

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education…

— Ken Robinson

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

“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

“We can be much, much more than we were taught in teachers college... more than stern ladies at the front of the…

— Jenny Bowen

Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when…

— Oliver DeMille

First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts…

— Mitch Albom

Directors were like schoolteachers. Do this. Do that. Don't do this. Don't do that. I dreaded it.

— Kishore Kumar

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

— Sidney Hook

“Educators are in the news, too. Usually that’s bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you…

— Tucker Elliot

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

— Mae Jemison

While Matt Bevin insults and bullies educators, I care about showing our teachers respect, protecting their pensions, and making public education a…

— Andy Beshear

“My critics are my best teachers, but only when they will talk with me, not at me. Unfortunately,”

— Shane Claiborne

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university,

— Jose Manuel Barroso

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

— Lyle Lovett

In film schools of the future, professors will teach 'Tammy' as an object lesson in Making Everything Go Wrong.

— Richard Corliss

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's…

— Saul Williams

It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

— David Grinspoon

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

— Richard Dawkins

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

— Jewel

“Your legacy as an educator is always determined by what your students do. You change the world by empowering your students to…

— John Spencer

You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are…

— Magnus Magnusson

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback…

— Arne Duncan

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids…

— Dana Goldstein

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to…

— Matt Damon

It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.

— Philip Selznick

After reading the TJ Hooper case, a lady in class asked Torts professor if Learned Hand was an actual person.

— Anonymous

It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I…

— Zooey Deschanel

If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and…

— Kym Whitley

One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never…

— Thomas Groome

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

— Jean-Baptiste de La Salle