Teacher Preparation Quotes

#1. Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

Michael Bennet

#2. Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

Paulo Freire

#3. As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our goal is to try to win, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort instead of on numbers on a scoreboard then we will never lose.

Mike Krzyzewski

#4. Books are another kind of magic.

G. Lyness

#5. A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Howard Crosby

#6. Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#7. Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.

Nancy Gibbs

#8. The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Bruce Barton

#9. Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.

Chris Hadfield

#10. He could have loved her as a man loves a woman, protected her, provided for her, given her children, grown old with her and passed on to the next life with her. Damn

J.R. Barrett

#11. The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

William Osler

#12. A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Elbert Hubbard

#13. The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher ... is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

Maria Montessori

#14. Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

James Purefoy

#15. Your past is your experiences and your teacher as well, and your future is your hope, your dream and your fate, while the present is your moment of learning from past and preparation for the future.

Jinnul Jr.

#16. Who was there to guide them? The words of self-obsessed politicians, egotistical media personalities, power-crazed newspaper magnates and half-mad clerics? Who could reason sensibly when supplied with all the wrong information for all the wrong reasons?

Robert Rankin

#17. I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.

Ludacris

#18. Hank."
"Mmmm."
"I can't get back to sleep."
"You're welcome.

Lee DeBourg