Teachers Quotes · Page 35

“You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

— Walt Disney

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

— Alice Childress

“His teachers, as a result, could shape the minds and values of their students without contradiction from children who might know something…

— Blaine Harden

“No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled…

— James M. Lang

In my school, racism was ubiquitous and unrelenting, and not just from the pupils. For a year I was terrorised by one…

— David Olusoga

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

— John Loengard

You know, I haven't met an educator that doesn't agree that students learn best in school, and they really want our students…

— Miguel Cardona

Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime;…

— Lydia Sigourney

“...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess,…

— Rohinton Mistry

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do…

— Alice Waters

Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me…

— Andrew Young

“My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness.…

— Tucker Elliot

“Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to…

— Shannon L. Alder

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to…

— Ernest Istook

In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much…

— Deborah Ellis

Our students are not broken. Our teachers are not broken. It's our system that has been broken.

— Gretchen Whitmer

“Whenever I see my teachers out in the real world I clam up, get a sort of weird feeling, and look for…

— Alecia Whitaker

My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid…

— Nick Offerman

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

— Brian Lara

Y'all remember in elementary school, teachers said we'd HAVE to write in cursive once we hit high school? THEM BTCHES LIED!

— Anonymous

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing…

— Mayim Bialik

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

— John Leguizamo

“There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method.”

— Neil Postman

“If I were a professor, I’d bring my cat to class. I’d be silent until it meowed, and as soon as it…

— Jarod Kintz

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

— Seymour Sarason

As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including…

— David Novak

It's good, sound business to treat all the teachers fairly, and I think it's a good story to tell.

— Thom Tillis

“I think so,' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.”

— J.K. Rowling

There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are.…

— Frederick Lenz

I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

— Laurence D. Fink

Just showed up my professor in front of the whole class. I hate when people think Im stupid, I know what Im…

— Merle Anthony Rowland

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

— Solomon Ortiz

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

— Carlos Castaneda

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among…

— Carl Linnaeus

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but…

— Paulo Freire

“Jasnah sniffed. “Your tutors were idiots. Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere’s great catalysts for change, Shallan.”

— Brandon Sanderson

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

— Andy Hargreaves

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

— Alison King

“There is nothing more valuable then God's widsom. HIS teachers are sometimes the most unlikely people.”

— Shannon Alder