Literacy-children Quote by Ruth Schoenback

Committed teachers know their students' needs better than anyone in the system. Traditionally, however, teachers have little control over the purchase of student materials.

— Charles Best

If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of…

— Paul Lockhart

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.”

— Bryant McGill

What people need and what they want may be very different… Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

— Elbert Hubbard

Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream-to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to…

— Martha Stewart

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

— Sugata Mitra

“A teacher isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she…

— Paulo Coelho

At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that classroom teachers often know their students better than anybody else in the system and that their front-line experience gives…

— Charles Best

“...no learner can afford to be dependent on the teacher for everything that needs to be noticed, so teachers have to teach children to…

— Peter Johnston