Quotes About Teaching Elementary School

#1. It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

Dan Simmons

#2. Treatise on the Science of Arms with Philosophical Dialogue

Cary Elwes

#3. I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.

Mary J. Miller

#4. Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now. SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Shawn Smucker

#5. I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I hope that through my work as a photographer, I have been able to pass on my appreciation of their beauty and charm.

Anne Geddes

#6. That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

Jane Lynch

#7. Good students are good at all things.

Marissa Mayer

#8. -Kit-He said my name again and again.Just ... Kit.We held each other tight,rocking,trying to milk the last drops of sensation.Wring the last flashes of lightening.Riders on the storm.

Josh Lanyon

#9. But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"
Victor laughed triumphantly, and said, "Because at school they are made to hate it.

Olaf Stapledon

#10. In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

Henny Youngman

#11. Left to themselves, people remake their origin stories every few generations to suit present circumstances.

Jo Walton

#12. Know what you are talking about.

Pope John Paul II

#13. I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

Conor Oberst

#14. The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

William Bennett

#15. What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.

Herman Melville

#16. In thinking back, not having any experience in any other elementary school, there may have been an advantage of being with different age groups to benefit from what they were learning in a more advanced capacity. With a small group like that, there was a lot of one-to-one teaching.

Paul Smith

#17. In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Dick Schaap

#18. There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

Jonathan Kozol