Quotes About Influential Teachers

#1. Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.

Sebastian Coe

#2. I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

June Squibb

#3. I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.

Wayne Dyer

#4. A foolish son has no advantage over an orphan.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

J.D. Salinger

#6. The most effective reading teachers are teachers who read. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), "Perhaps the most influential teacher behavior to influence students' literacy development is personal reading, both in and out of school" (p. 81).

Donalyn Miller

#7. For compulsions, according to a growing body of scientific evidence, are a response to anxiety. Suffused and overwhelmed by anxiety, we grab hold of any behavior that offers relief by providing even an illusion of control.

Sharon Begley

#8. Decide to believe in God, who created you. Decide to believe in yourself, that you truly can reach goals - your goals

Rex D. Pinegar

#9. Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.

Lyman Bryson

#10. Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

Benjamin Whichcote