Top 63 An Educator Quotes
#1. I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
John Shirley
#2. Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.
Russell Baker
#4. I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.
Kyrsten Sinema
#5. I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.
Maria Shriver
#6. I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
Tabatha Coffey
#7. If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#8. The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Saul Steinberg
#9. The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective.
Randy Pausch
#10. An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students.
Tanya R. Liverman
#11. As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#12. When you wanted me to spend my afternoons sunbathing on the Lake instead of doing my work, I gladly gave in and became a bronzed glamor boy for your sake, instead of remaining a scholar and, well, an educator.
Vladimir Nabokov
#13. I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#14. I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#15. As she nurtured her business relationships, Hall spent less time meeting teachers and parents and visiting schools. Often, she seemed to approach her job more as a CEO than an educator.
Anonymous
#16. Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
Godfrey Reggio
#17. As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
James D. Watson
#18. Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
Derek Bok
#19. Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator.
Randy Pausch
#20. A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example.
Jhoon Goo Rhee
#21. An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment.
Anthony Standen
#22. Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.
Eva Amurri
#23. One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.
Sarah Kay
#24. An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
Maria Montessori
#27. The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
Joseph Campbell
#28. I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.
Bill Gates
#30. As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.
Debasish Mridha
#31. As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.
Donald Berwick
#32. From the child itself he will learn how to perfect himself as an educator.
Maria Montessori
#33. I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.
Jeff Kinney
#34. If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour.
Roy Lessin
#35. There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.
Queen Latifah
#36. As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
Ben Bernanke
#37. The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
John Osborne
#38. In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.
Tim Gunn
#39. As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#40. An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.
Lerone Bennett Jr.
#41. As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way.
Jenna Bush
#42. The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.
Cornel West
#43. How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself.
Paulo Freire
#44. Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
Fred W. Friendly
#45. An educator ... a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.
Jill Telford
#46. Be an educator, bloom like a flower, be a philosopher.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Useful learning needs to begin where the student is at that time and then builds on what that person knows. The biggest challenge to an educator is what to forgo from the 'old' curriculum in favour of something more relevant. Then
David Loader
#48. It is ok to be a teacher but it is great to be an educator.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
Henry A. Kissinger
#50. When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.
Jeff Kinney
#51. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus the other.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#52. If you're an educator, caregiver, or parent, and you find yourself unable to contain your anger with kids, please consider getting professional help. Excessive harshness, whether it's emotional or physical in nature, can cause lasting harm to children.
Laura L. Smith
#53. I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
Christa McAuliffe
#54. Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.
John Dewey
#55. The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
David Elliott
#56. The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.
Ellen Key
#57. Of course I'm totally biased, but I think my mom is an amazing educator. She continues to work tirelessly for the kids in her classes, year after year - despite the innumerable obstacles she faces. She is a huge inspiration to me.
Kandyse McClure
#58. Just as you learn from a teacher, so you can observe and learn from the educator we call nature.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.
Rick Perry
#61. It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.
Philip Selznick
#62. Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.
Carl Jung
#63. The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
Paulo Freire
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