Quotes About Good Educators

#1. It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

David Almond

#2. The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.

Pierre Trudeau

#3. Once you go Bram, you won't give a damn.

Karina Halle

#4. Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#5. Those moments of knowing are sharp and merciless, but then they fade out, like stars when the sky gets light in the morning. You know, and then you don't know.

Joan Wickersham

#6. Many leading educators and psychologists believe that it is the ability to ask good questions that characterizes both intelligence and creativity.

Madeline Levine

#7. We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price of safety. That was the bargain we made with the devil we knew to escape the devil we didn't.

C.J. Redwine

#8. Mankind divides itself into two classes,
benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

R.C. Sproul

#10. He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

Alan Hollinghurst

#11. No cookie is a good cookie

Pete Abilla

#12. Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive.

Kathleen Wynne

#13. Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

Diane Ravitch

#14. I arched my back and flexed my hips experimentally ... once ... twice ... a third time. It really was true what they said about riding a bike. My body remembered this just as quickly.

Alice Clayton

#15. Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Utah Phillips

#16. I can't. If I do, I will second guess myself and nothing would get done. I'd stay in one place. I'd let my fear get me.

Celia Mcmahon

#17. Anxiety does not take away stress; it just enhances it. If you accept changes with optimism and love, anxiety will melt away.

Debasish Mridha

#18. The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#19. Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

Neil Postman

#20. Learning to sketch the nude human form is standard practice for a beginning drawing class," she said. "We always hire a nude model. Last season I did it myself." While he was adjusting to the horror of that, Lucille went on.

Jill Shalvis

#21. One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful

Napoleon Hill