Education Teacher Quotes

#1. I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

Eva Longoria

#2. My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

Sloane Crosley

#3. The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it.

Daniel Goleman

#4. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

Andy Hargreaves

#5. It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

Saint Augustine

#6. He was a teacher with good thinks of the life and education but he espress with a sentence.

Paulo Freire

#7. My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.

Kimberly Hill Campbell

#8. A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

Darwin D. Martin

#9. The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding calculations to a rich frothy mug of math as an active way of thinking.

John Golden

#10. Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#12. This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

William Glasser

#13. I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.

Tony Danza

#14. A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.

Narendra Modi

#15. In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

William James

#16. A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Ruth Beechick

#17. Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.

John T. Scopes

#19. There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

David Puttnam

#20. Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.

Frank Herbert

#21. I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

Anita Brookner

#22. Going to school is like going to prison ... you have about two weeks to establish your credibility, failing which you're either a punk or as good as dead. Depending on the school, some students can manage ot avoid those stark alternatives, but even at the best school, no teacher does.

Garret Keizer

#23. Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

Milton Berle

#24. I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.

Maeve Binchy

#25. It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

Agnes Repplier

#26. The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

David Berliner

#27. There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. When I went to school every teacher had a BOARD of education.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#29. I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.

Stephen Pagliuca

#30. I make honorable things pleasant to children. A teacher from Sparta

David Brooks

#31. Education makes life self-reliant. It inspires man to live with dignity in the society. It is the foremost requisite of a teacher to identify his own virtues. He needs to live supported by his inherent virtues-and must continue to uphold them.

Narendra Modi

#32. The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher ... is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

Maria Montessori

#33. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

Claus Moser, Baron Moser

#34. In high school I wrote an essay on baseball and my teacher told me I had to rewrite it on a more serious topic. So I wrote an essay about the World Series and my teacher gave up.

Tucker Elliot

#35. Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

Virginia Cary Hudson

#36. But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

Roy Barnes

#37. School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.

Vijay Dhameliya

#38. I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Anne Sullivan

#39. Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms ... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.' ... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.

David Perkins

#40. Not only is this teacher educating her children in violence, she also has to continuously escalate her own violence to keep control. Her method of teaching breeds disrespect and prejudice. Her students have been dehumanized.

Arun Gandhi

#41. Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life.

Debasish Mridha

#42. Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

George Lucas

#43. All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Abraham Maslow

#44. Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

Amartya Sen

#45. With the help of technology, teachers will be leaders in the transformation of education around the world.

Craig R. Barrett

#46. A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

Laurence Housman

#47. The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important ... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

Kinky Friedman

#48. There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

John F. Kennedy

#49. Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

Paulo Freire

#50. I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

Elton John

#51. T lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students could be, as it were (he said), the rubbing post for the thought of his teacher.

Malcolm Bradbury

#52. But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

Barack Obama

#53. Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

William Glasser

#54. It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

G.K. Chesterton

#55. Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

Robert M. Hutchins

#56. President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.

Juan Williams

#57. I am not a teacher, but I am a friend who likes to kindle your heart and awaken your mind.

Debasish Mridha

#58. Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Paulo Freire

#59. A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest L. Boyer

#60. My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

George Emil Palade

#61. Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

#62. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

Peter Agre

#63. It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.

John Goodlad

#64. Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B.F. Skinner

#65. Imagine taking home this beautiful young paleskinned blackhaired late-model Jewess. Into fitness, healthy living. Raised good in better Yonkers. Mother a Hebrew School teacher, which means for her a traditional education.

Joshua Cohen

#66. God is the greatest Teacher.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#67. I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

Henry David Thoreau

#68. Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.

Neil Postman

#69. All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

George Whitman

#70. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Harold Bloom

#71. A teacher can change a life just with appreciation and love.

Debasish Mridha

#72. Christ is the Lesson as well as the Teacher.

Darvin Pruitt

#73. I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

Bernard Beckett

#74. Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.

Oliver DeMille

#75. Adversities are the best teacher and challenges are the best motivator.

Debasish Mridha

#76. Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

Andy Hargreaves

#77. I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.

Truth Devour

#78. A great teacher not only teaches, they cultivate green fields to grow beautiful flowers to spread the fragrance of peace, happiness, and prosperity.

Debasish Mridha

#79. But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's performance than a completely different set of factors: namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education.

Steven D. Levitt

#80. Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Sidney Hook

#81. My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

Gordon Bell

#82. Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.

Narendra Modi

#83. When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children anyway they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did And exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids

Roger Waters

#84. One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

John Dewey

#85. A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

William Cowper

#86. Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Edward Griffith Begle

#87. When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William Bagley

#88. One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

John Dewey

#89. Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

Allan Sherman

#90. When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"

Diogenes Laertius

#91. Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

Evan Esar

#92. I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor - all laid out.

Bunker Roy

#93. We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Maria Montessori

#94. Educators are in the news, too. Usually that's bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you're probably going to jail.

Tucker Elliot

#95. Failure is often our best teacher not the success.

Debasish Mridha

#96. Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Newell Dwight Hillis

#97. Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education ... to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

John Adams

#98. I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Loni Anderson

#99. Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.

Bill Gates

#100. I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Robert Frost