Quotes About Successful Teachers

#1. Our world needs less gurus, and more teachers. Gurus are about helping themselves become successful. Teachers are about helping others become successful.

Joseph C. Kunz Jr.

#2. We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

Wendy Kopp

#3. People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Wendy Kopp

#4. We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.

Wendy Kopp

#5. 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

#6. Teachers often fail students by complimenting the successful students and ignoring those who do not prove as successful. Teachers need to embrace and praise all children.

Asa Don Brown

#7. If the enemy know not where he will be attacked, he must prepare in every quarter, and so be everywhere weak.

Sun Tzu

#8. Show me a perfect woman and I show you a perfect man.

Arthur T.Y. Foo

#9. All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do

Randall Cobb

#10. Like the waves need the sand to crash on, like the sun needs the world to shine on, you're the bright side of every day, me without you just isn't the same

Ross Lynch

#11. I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection.

Thomas De Maiziere

#12. I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.

David Miliband

#13. When teachers are fully successful, they are successful beyond any of their conscious intentions about particular subjects: they make converts, they make souls that have been turned around to face a given way of being and moving in the world.

Wayne C. Booth

#14. Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily?

Basil Moreau

#15. Marrok, in all
these years, you've grown to be like a grandson to me. I believe you can do this. Have faith in your
wolf, son. Where you're weak, he's strong. It's his mate, too, and I can guarantee he won't let her go
without a fight.

Rose Wynters

#16. You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

Charles Portis

#17. Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.

Andreas Schleicher

#18. Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

Robert Kiyosaki

#19. Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Chris Chocola

#20. The truly important problems are often the ones you're not even considering, because they appear to be impossible, or, um, actually difficult, or worst of all, not clear how to solve.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#21. and starting to stay even with

Mary Higgins Clark

#22. Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

Marty Rubin

#23. to squirm my little space in the cosmic dust whence I came,

Jack London

#24. We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.

Wendy Kopp