Compulsion Quote by Jacob Abbott

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large…

— William James

“Sometimes our jobs as teachers is not to open their minds. Sometimes we have to thaw them.”

— Mike Murphy

“And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook a work…

— John Owen

“Habits of an empowerED teacher: “read, notice, think, make theories about how writing works, imagine possibilities, write yourself; it isn’t magic, it’s just slow,…

— Penny Kittle

“View everyone around you as a teacher; from some, seek to learn what not to do and from others, what to do.”

— Amey Hegde

“Even as we improved as teachers and as students, the children continued to have raging impulse-control problems; the very thing that made them spontaneous…

— Anne Lamott

“Teachers must, I discovered, have a gift to teach and the compulsion to use it. And faith. Anything less won't carry you through.”

— Robert Adams

Our teachers are incredibly hardworking and dedicated professionals. Having to deal with unruly pupils and disruption on a daily basis adds to their workload…

— Gavin Williamson

“Whether through the patterns left in snow, or geese honking in the dark, or through the brilliant wet leaf that hits your face the…

— Mark Nepo

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

— Frederick Lenz

'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that…

— Clint Smith

“Teachers who complain 'These kids have no work ethic' couldn't be farther off the mark. The problem is not that these kids lack a…

— Garret Keizer