Quotes About Being A Good Teacher

#1. Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Maggie Gallagher

#3. The insolence of office.

William Shakespeare

#4. As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

Giacomo Casanova

#5. Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

Norman Vincent Peale

#6. One of the tricks of being a good teacher, he'd learned, was not to overuse the Look.

Peter Clines

#7. Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

Lauren DeStefano

#8. 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

#9. We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Elliot W. Eisner

#10. If I had a nickel for every time I almost died, I would have been driving to school in a Ferrari and flying off to Bora-Bora on the weekends.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#11. Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.

Michael Dirda

#12. Why would you throw a ball in someone's face? ... Huh. That's a pretty good reason. Well, I can't do much about your teacher being pissed, but me and you are good.

Justin Halpern

#13. Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test ...

Henry Giroux

#14. Some mistakes cost everything.

Jean Haus