Teacher Quality Quotes

#1. Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

David Puttnam

#2. The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

Andy Hargreaves

#3. I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.

Frederick Lenz

#4. But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#5. Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

Adam Braun

#6. As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Joanna Russ

#7. Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

Charles Handy

#8. The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Michael Gove

#9. Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students to higher levels of excellence. They shun mere conformity and expect their students to think and perform to their ever-increasing potential.

Oliver DeMille

#10. A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#11. In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

William Glasser

#12. If you can show a person logical proof that essentianlly he's got nothing to cry about, he'll stop crying. That seems clear. Don't you think he'd stop crying?'
"That would make life too easy," Raskolnikov replied.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. After that, anytime she caught me near a kitchen she'd start in on me. So I have an automatic sphincter clench any time I reach for a pan. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

Andy Hargreaves

#15. A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#16. The teacher, not a set of books, is the determining factor in quality results.

James Bastien

#17. As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

Sue Kelly

#18. Mrs. Bevins smiled. "Okay. I'll cop. I think every teacher sees this sometimes. It's not simply intelligence or talent. It's a nobility of spirit. A quality which could make him great at whatever he wanted to do." We

Lucia Berlin

#19. I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same.

Lauren Oliver

#20. Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be.

Alice Hoffman

#21. Ceony shut the book and glanced to her new teacher. "It's . . . amazing, but I admit it's also superficial. Aesthetic."
"But entertaining," he combated. "Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it's something everyone wants.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#22. How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Lorraine Toussaint

#23. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

John Cusack

#24. The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.

Bob Pletka

#25. I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.

Fiona Apple

#26. Mr. Rogers might have liked me just the way I am, but I certainly don't.

Steven Goldman

#27. It would have been much more fortunate had the Persians become masters of the Greeks, rather than have the Romans of all people assume that role.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. 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

#29. Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#30. I had to see you this night. One more time before I say my vows tomorrow. Once spoken, I'll never break them. I'd not betray my wife or my clan.

Maya Banks

#31. Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

Jeb Bush

#32. What are you doing here? (Devyn) I love you, too, Pookie Bear. (Zarina)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#33. A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#34. But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

Roy Barnes

#35. The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.

Andreas Schleicher

#36. The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales.

Robert E. Murray