Top 100 Teachers Are Quotes
#2. What the teachers understand, students never understand and in the paper what we want them to understand they never understand so, apparently, students and teachers are like withstanding married couples with misunderstanding.
Himmilicious
#3. In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#4. Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.
John Leguizamo
#5. Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.
Andy Hargreaves
#6. Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.
Peter Schjeldahl
#7. True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#8. Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Haim Ginott
#9. Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor unpatriotic. They are, however, secured creditors of Chrysler. They deserve to have their funds protected under the full auspices of the law.
Richard Mourdock
#10. Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test ...
Henry Giroux
#11. the quality of classroom practice that a child encounters has unmatched potential with respect to influencing student learning and achievement. What teachers are doing in classes with students on a daily basis has the greatest potential to influence the academic outcome for students,
Steven Katz
#12. Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.
Frederick Lenz
#13. While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#14. Teachers are endless Fragrance, which lasts forever in mind of students as Knowledge
Samar Sudha
#15. In short, teachers are more, not less, likely than many other workers to get fired.
Dana Goldstein
#16. But after children leave their parents' arms, school is still the necessary place for knowledge and soul to spring into life and good teachers are still the instigators of that miracle.
David Denby
#17. Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.
Sathya Sai Baba
#18. Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.
Michael Gurian
#19. The overwhelming number of teachers ... are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
Alfie Kohn
#20. We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.
J.K. Rowling
#21. There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.
Dana Goldstein
#22. The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Alexandra K.Trenfor
#23. No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.
Rudyard Kipling
#24. Unfortunately, too many of our schools depend on inexperienced teachers with little training in the subjects they're teaching, and too often those teachers are concentrated in already struggling schools.
Barack Obama
#25. Great Teachers are passionate and compassionate - they have a powerful personality to engage every mind in the classroom. They are never forgotten.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#26. The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
Wendell Berry
#27. The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
Wendy Kopp
#28. Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.
Rafe Esquith
#29. I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.
Dana Goldstein
#30. I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
David Duchovny
#31. Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here.
Jim Benton
#32. Teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth. Maybe this time they'll be unpredictable in the right direction for a change.
Anne Frank
#33. Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#34. All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.
Andy Hargreaves
#35. Teachers of subjects that this person wasn't even good at are kissing this person and renouncing the very subjects they taught. Math teachers are saying that math was just a funny way of saying I love you.
Miranda July
#36. Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.
Narendra Modi
#37. Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.
Jon Porter
#39. Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
Julius Erving
#40. I didn't take it seriously myself at the time, but now all of my old teachers are supportive. Even my principal - I sold out the O2 Arena in London, and he came out to see me, which was really cool. I actually put a picture with him on my Instagram, and I think and he's wearing one of my snapbacks.
Tinie Tempah
#41. We want Florida to be first for jobs, and we must have a skilled workforce to reach that goal. By investing in science, technology, engineering and math education, we are ensuring our students are prepared for the jobs of the future. Our teachers are essential to preparing our students.
Rick Scott
#42. The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.
Kinky Friedman
#43. optimal literacy teaching and learning can only be achieved when skillful, knowledgeable, and dedicated teachers are given the freedom and latitude to use their professional judgment to make instructional decisions that enable students to achieve their full literacy potential.
Linda B. Gambrell
#44. Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.
Ann Coulter
#45. Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Teachers are the greatest freaks on earth, ...
Anne Frank
#48. There is nothing more valuable then God's widsom. HIS teachers are sometimes the most unlikely people.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.
Frederick Lenz
#50. Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.
Idries Shah
#51. Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
Roger Ebert
#52. When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.
Dana Goldstein
#53. 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
#54. You better dust off your etiquette, better sit like you did back at whatever grade that made it clear to you that your teachers are not your parents, and that any mess you made remains your responsibility.
Shane Koyczan
#56. Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W.S. Merwin
#58. Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.
Matthew Donnelly
#59. So on the one hand in school you're teachers are constantly telling you that you can be whatever it is you want to be as long as you put your mind and heart to it, and yet at the same time I was also getting the clear message of, well, what can you do really?
Sheena Iyengar
#60. If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
Alexandra Robbins
#61. The best teachers are the best storytellers.
Frank Smith
#62. Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.
Sugata Mitra
#63. When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
Ian Hart
#64. Lydia is an excellent student! She's a clever girl, only these teachers are such sticklers for having all papers and tests completed, and they leave no room for judging her by her own merit.
Laura Briggs
#65. Great teachers are precious. Lousy teachers cause damage that lasts forever. We need to reorganize our schools to free the great teachers from tests and reports and busywork, and to expel the lousy
Seth Godin
#66. We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.
Loren Eiseley
#67. 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
#68. Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.
Dalai Lama
#69. Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the average remember only about 40% of what you tell them, the thing to do is to cram into each course 250% of what you hope will stick.
Paul Halmos
#70. ACADEMIC CHAIRS ARE MANY, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
Albert Einstein
#71. Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
John Dewey
#72. I think so many of our educators, when they hear about these programs coming from the federal government, they're just thinking, 'Uh, that's another book of paperwork that I'm going to have to do,' and teachers are so weighed down with that.
Marsha Blackburn
#73. Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
Wendy Kopp
#74. Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.
Joseph Barrell
#75. Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.
Dana Goldstein
#76. It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
Chi McBride
#77. Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.
Monica Johnson
#78. Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.
Tom Paulin
#79. Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.
Bertrand Russell
#80. Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.
Ralph E. Reed Jr.
#82. Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
Peter Agre
#83. Some teachers are very accessible. They advertise a great deal, they go out into the public. If they're advanced teachers, doubtlessly they are very inaccessible in terms of physical proximity.
Frederick Lenz
#84. Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils ... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.
Bernhard Rust
#85. Good teachers are door openers in to that wisdom you already have inside
Lucia Capacchione
#86. Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.
Don Tapscott
#87. I don't have individuals that are heroes per say but I will suggest that teachers are heroes for me, our firefighters are heroes for me, our police departments are heroes for me and our leaders are heroes for me.
John Assaraf
#88. Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too. I don't want to complain too much, as nurses, farmers and teachers are out working long hours.
Rhys Ifans
#89. The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
Tullian Tchividjian
#90. Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.
Chi McBride
#91. They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!
George Takei
#92. School is like theater. Teachers are like directors, students are like actors, and classes are like theatrical presentations.
Victor Miller
#94. Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.
Susan Mann
#95. If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school.
Kym Whitley
#96. Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why
Seth Godin
#97. The best-remembered teachers are the tough ones, who discipline our intellects for the longest journeys.
Annis Pratt
#98. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flowers, and so many grade school teachers are single.
Daniel Handler
#99. To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
Pete Hamill
#100. Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.
LZ Granderson
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