Quotes About Substitute Teaching

#1. I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

Todd Barry

#2. We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today ... we had a sub.'

Adora Svitak

#3. Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

Adora Svitak

#4. I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.

Ron Carlson

#5. First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

Jeff Lindsay

#6. I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.

Lorrie Moore

#7. Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

Philip Jose Farmer

#8. When your heart speaks, take good notes.

Susan Campbell

#9. As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg.
I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#10. One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

Samuel Johnson

#11. You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn't matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. I prefer to be a private person.

Huma Abedin

#13. Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.

Nhat Hanh

#14. I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.

Jodi Picoult

#15. Some people may like you, and some people may not, keep living your life dreams, you will succeed!

Nitra Gipson

#16. Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

Samuel Johnson

#17. To my countrymen
who gave unto themselves the constitution but not the ability to keep it,who inherited resplendent heritage but not the wisdom to cherish it,who suffer and endure in pain without the perception of their potential.

Nani Palkhiwala

#18. When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

Eliot Spitzer

#19. I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that.

Sean Patrick Thomas