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Teacher Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they…
- On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland…
- My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.
- I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
- Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.
- I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling…
- Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in…
- The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower…
- Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in…
- The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives…
- I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and…
- In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
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