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Teacher Quotes by Diane Ravitch
- Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
- Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should…
- The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail,…
- Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.
- What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students…
- Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
- Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
More Teacher Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers. — Michele Bachmann