Teachers Quotes · Page 43

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence…

— Joe Paterno

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired…

— Knute Nelson

Some teachers are very accessible. They advertise a great deal, they go out into the public. If they're advanced teachers, doubtlessly they…

— Frederick Lenz

In the Gospel we have just heard, Jesus, the Master, teaches the crowds and the small group of his disciples by accommodating…

— Pope Francis

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and…

— Dave Eggers

I want a tutor,” Layla said. “It would make doing homework so much easier.” “Me too,” said Kaitlyn. “If Layla gets one,…

— Claire LaZebnik

“In spite of all my efforts to create a neat, tidy, obedient, moderate, unexceptional persona, I was simply too weird for them;…

— Salman Rushdie

Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge…

— H. L. Mencken

I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the…

— Denis McDonough

Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful,…

— Andreas Schleicher

Teachers have such hard jobs and they don't get paid well. And in order to be a teacher you need a lot…

— Hank Green

I travelled round the world giving demonstrations of my talents. In every country, I performed for students, professors, teachers, bankers, accountants, and…

— Shakuntala Devi

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

— Nat Hentoff

“I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but…

— Alice Sebold

Our teachers are everywhere. Our teachers are right in front of us, and take so many forms. All we need to do…

— Dani Shapiro

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to…

— Derek Bok

“Millennials (aka Generation Y) are great at social media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter,Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, and Periscope) but…

— Ramesh Lohia

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just…

— Sugata Mitra

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no…

— Sugata Mitra

The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that…

— Anonymous

There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me…

— Abraham Verghese

The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and…

— D. James Kennedy

“I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of…

— Allan Dare Pearce

It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools…

— Michael Gove

I had a professor in graduate school who told us, 'Know what you're good at, and do that thing.' And I thought,…

— Ruthie Ann Miles

“Your old tutor did you a great disservice, Mr. Kynaston. He taught you how to speak, and swoon, and toss your head…

— Stage Beauty

I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about…

— Mircea Monroe

What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would…

— David W. Orr

“The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite…

— Sydney J. Harris

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of…

— Jason Alexander

We really are based on this idea that teachers have all this pent-up classroom expertise and that if we could just empower…

— Charles Best

“Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he…

— Carsten Jensen

“Autodidacts tend to be cranks, obtuse and self-enclosed. A professor’s most important role is to make you think with rigor: precisely, patiently,…

— William Deresiewicz

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say,…

— Melinda Gates

People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves.…

— Frederick Lenz

We've heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes -…

— Charles Best

The best teachers enlighten their students precisely because they combine professional expertise,the ability to awaken intellectual curiosity,and a special warmth that can…

— Anonymous

We need more concept-development and active involvement, less tuning forks, pulleys, and friction formulas - students know they'll never use those. They…

— Michio Kaku

“seventy-six-year-old Professor Liviu Librescu, but he was from a different generation. He sacrificed himself by holding the door while ordering his students…

— Chris Bird

We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God…

— Adam Hamilton