Top 100 Sayings About Teacher Education
#1. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
Andy Hargreaves
#2. It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.
John Goodlad
#3. It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
Wendy Kopp
#4. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.
Debasish Mridha
#6. The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it.
Daniel Goleman
#7. What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
Karl Kraus
#8. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.
Debasish Mridha
#9. I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or they're only working to please us, they're not going to be interested in school.
Rafe Esquith
#10. Your mentor may not be the teacher you dreamed of, and that's the point. This is your education of what is, not what you think should be.
Jeff Goins
#11. The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.
Bob Pletka
#12. All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.
Louise Hay
#13. It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
Saint Augustine
#14. Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed.
Richard Elmore
#15. I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
Jon Secada
#16. He was a teacher with good thinks of the life and education but he espress with a sentence.
Paulo Freire
#17. Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#18. The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
Abdoulaye Wade
#19. My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.
Kimberly Hill Campbell
#20. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
Mollie Marti
#21. Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.
Piers Anthony
#22. The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.
Bill Richardson
#23. A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
Darwin D. Martin
#24. When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"
Milton Berle
#25. Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
Howard Gardner
#26. Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.
Debasish Mridha
#27. If I can be perfectly blunt, his humanities teacher was an ass.
Tucker Elliot
#28. Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.
Narendra Modi
#29. Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.
John Wooden
#30. Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Solomon Ortiz
#31. Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.
Julie Andrews
#32. Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.
Robert Kiyosaki
#33. The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.
Carly Fiorina
#35. A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#36. The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding calculations to a rich frothy mug of math as an active way of thinking.
John Golden
#37. Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#38. Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
#39. Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#40. Let us pick up our books and our pens," I said. "They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
#41. We get through life and this is part of the education process also. In real life, we meet bad bosses and good bosses and good friends and bad friends. I think we should let the teachers do their work and not impose too much stuff on them.
Philippe Falardeau
#42. This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
William Glasser
#44. I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.
Tony Danza
#45. Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
Stevie Wonder
#46. A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.
Narendra Modi
#47. This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
Rebecca Goldstein
#48. In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
William James
#49. Education depends on the quality of the teacher, not the site or beauty of the buildings-- nor, I might add, does it depend on the winning record of the football team, and I like football.
Anonymous
#50. Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor ...
Virginia Satir
#51. Learning is good in and of itself ... the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.
George H. W. Bush
#52. A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
Ruth Beechick
#53. He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.
Alice Cooper
#54. There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#55. Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.
Frederick Lenz
#56. The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.
William James
#57. Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.
John T. Scopes
#58. There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
David Puttnam
#59. Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.
Nicky Gumbel
#60. Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?
Narendra Modi
#61. If you don't have a teacher, don't worry. Learn by observing the best teacher which is nature.
Debasish Mridha
#62. We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives.
Simon Boylan
#63. A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass ... Will you?"
James E. Myers
#64. Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
Herbert Spencer
#65. Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.
Frank Herbert
#66. In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.
William Barrett
#67. The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is ... the influence and control of the minds of men.
Ron Dart
#68. You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change.
Debasish Mridha
#69. My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.
Frank Zappa
#70. I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
Eva Longoria
#71. The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
William Fogg Osgood
#72. I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.
Anita Brookner
#73. Going to school is like going to prison ... you have about two weeks to establish your credibility, failing which you're either a punk or as good as dead. Depending on the school, some students can manage ot avoid those stark alternatives, but even at the best school, no teacher does.
Garret Keizer
#74. Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.
Milton Berle
#75. I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
Dennis Quaid
#76. Television didn't transform education. Neither will the internet. But it will be another tool for teachers to use in their effort to reach students in the classroom. It will also be a means by which students learn outside the classroom
John Palfrey
#77. For many kids, a good teacher may be the most palpable form of honor they will ever experience.
David Denby
#78. I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.
Maeve Binchy
#79. As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.
Alma Adams
#80. This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though, as a compromise, dinosaurs are now called Jesus Horses.
Jimmy Fallon
#81. Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#82. Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first ...
Tanya R. Liverman
#83. Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.
Rollo May
#84. It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
Agnes Repplier
#85. The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.
David Berliner
#86. There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.
Diane Ravitch
#89. The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.
Edward Bernays
#90. We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
Frank Rizzo
#91. Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer - for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
Sydney J. Harris
#92. At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without luxury, labour without emolument, and die without notice, that they might stamp God's image on the soul of youth. That surely is a splendid vocation.
Edmund Campion
#93. It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."
Peter Hilton
#95. I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it.
John Green
#98. The mass education in high schools reflects the mass production of the real world. The teaching style has one teacher (supervisor) lecturing (leading) 20-25 students (workers) sitting in rows, much like a manager and his employees.
Jacob Lund Fisker
#99. In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.
Andy Hargreaves
#100. When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.
Thora Birch
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