What Teachers Do Quotes

#1. You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

Jenna Bush

#2. ...'Loving children is what teachers do for extra credit. It's not the main assignment.'
'Seems to me that the extra credit is more important than the main assignment,' observed Cordelia.

Esme Raji Codell

#3. What teachers do actually matters. Their ideas count. They are agents for change in our schools.

Denny Taylor

#4. 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

#5. When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#6. You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

Rudolf Steiner

#7. 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

#8. The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher-God complex.

Taylor Mali

#9. Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.

Jeffrey Toobin

#10. Teachers influence more by what they are, what they do, what they represent and what they believe than by what they teach and preach.

Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

#11. One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.

Bell Hooks

#12. Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

Mark Kostabi

#13. 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

#14. I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

Rachel Weisz

#15. When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from all walks of life - that said, "I'm standing up for what I believe in. I'm standing up for my community." That reaffirms what you can do.

Common

#16. I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Jonathan Kozol

#17. All our lives, we've been taught to defer to experts: teachers, doctors, and investment "professionals." But ultimately, expertise is about results. You can have the fanciest degrees from the fanciest schools, but if you can't perform what you were hired to do, your expertise is meaningless. In

Ramit Sethi

#18. I think comedy is no different now than it was at other points. It takes a long time to get good and know how to distill what makes you funny beyond the realm of standup, which is what I'm trying to do with Teachers Lounge.

Ted Alexandro

#19. I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Phil McGraw

#20. The overwhelming number of teachers ... are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

Alfie Kohn

#21. There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

Jill Scott

#22. Fifty?" Harry gasped.
"Fifty points each," said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily.
"Professor - please - "
"You can't - "
"Don't tell me what I can and can't do, Potter. I've never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students.

J.K. Rowling

#23. Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

Horace Mann

#24. Teachers say if you write a story you must never name what you're trying to write. Just do it. When it's over you'll know what you've done.

Ray Bradbury

#25. My teachers used to tell me you need to learn to adjust to fit the situation. Don't just do what you've always done because it might not always work.

Buck Brannaman

#26. When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Natalie Portman

#27. The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.

Julie Andrews

#28. Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

Lou Reed

#29. What kind of grad student do you take? I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.

Lynn Margulis

#30. Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

Jamie Oliver

#31. Let's start simple - what's your verb?" Carl asks. "What do you mean, my verb?" "A nurse nurses, teachers teach and preachers preach. If you could only choose one verb to describe what you do best, what is it?

Ian Bull

#32. A new thing I've been doing is just making sure I clear off my desk and try to only touch a piece of paper once, so I get the mail, open it up, deal with it then. My son's homework, or what I get from his teachers, the same way. That way, it's not nagging me, things to add to my to-do list.

Adina Porter

#33. I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

Adam Hamilton

#34. I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

J. Cole

#35. Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

Oprah Winfrey

#36. A lot of female teachers do this - flirt with male students. I wonder if that's the only way they know how to interact with men. Like they use their sexuality to get what they want.

Matthew Quick

#37. Surrounded by alpha males that know more magic than all the teachers at Hogwarts, I'm about to ask who's going to do what to get us through the gate, when it becomes a moot point.

Karen Marie Moning

#38. Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

P. J. O'Rourke

#39. She tried to do what the Equinox yoga instructor said to do and thank each thought for coming then let it float away, but the thoughts were not floating away and she couldn't force them away, not even here, where she was supposed to be able to escape.

Stephanie Clifford

#40. When the only answer a little girl ever receives is no, from her parents or her teachers or her world, at some point she stops asking for what she wants. She begins to expect nothing, so as not to be disappointed when that exactly what she gets. But, it turns out, I do have wants.

Laura Fitzgerald

#41. Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

S.I. Hayakawa

#42. What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

Marva Collins

#43. I use to think being a warning was not meant to be apart of anyone's life purpose. However, how could you teach anything in life, without the deepest understanding of what not to do? Personally, I don't want someone offering advice, unless they have been to hell and back with a map and a compass.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

Will Schwalbe

#45. It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what's inside of you.

George Lucas

#46. Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

Peter Kropotkin

#47. There is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be.

J.K. Rowling

#48. I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

Victor LaValle

#49. My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my entire life, been surrounded by teachers, and because of that I've had a tremendous respect for what teachers can do, the power that they can have.

Michelle Rhee

#50. We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

Wendy Kopp

#51. I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

Emmanuelle Beart

#52. Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

Ken Robinson

#53. Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in
redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.

Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel