Acknowledge Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

— Peter Matthiessen

The students always, always surprise me.

— Dorianne Laux

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.

— LouAnne Johnson

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

— Robert H. Frank

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

— Deb Caletti

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

— Phil McGraw

I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!

— Susan Nagel

“Embarrassing facts, those would really help our children remember their classroom lessons better.”

— Bauvard

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to…

— Thom Gunn

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of…

— Elie Wiesel

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying…

— Pauline Oliveros

“It is very reassuring to your students that you know what you are doing.”

— Harry K. Wong