Quotes about Teachers

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out. Votes: 4

Teachers learn from their students' discussions Votes: 3

Trust no one," said Sullivan, "especially Teachers. Votes: 3

Teachers today can't take to a child. Votes: 3

Teachers need to be paid like professionals. Votes: 3

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions Votes: 3

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily. Votes: 3

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill. Votes: 3

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. Votes: 3

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself. Votes: 3

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation. Votes: 3

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning. Votes: 3

Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven. Votes: 3

A leader is not born; Teachers make the one. Votes: 3

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations. Votes: 3

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops. Votes: 3

Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is. Votes: 3

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives. Votes: 3

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization. Votes: 3

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals. Votes: 3

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops. Votes: 3

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change. Votes: 3

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned. Votes: 3

Teachers tell me that they'd like to work more closely with parents. Votes: 3

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook. Votes: 3

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. Votes: 3

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world. Votes: 3

Teachers are endless Fragrance, which lasts forever in mind of students as Knowledge Votes: 3

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures. Votes: 3

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. Votes: 3

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room Votes: 3

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication. Votes: 3

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication Votes: 3

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it. Votes: 3

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men. Votes: 3

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that. Votes: 3

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss. Votes: 3

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do. Votes: 3

Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood Votes: 3

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. Votes: 3

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life. Votes: 3

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching. Votes: 3

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other. Votes: 3

To these Teachers of Zen; you want a zafu cushion? sit your zen ass on a bicycle Votes: 3

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting. Votes: 3

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching. Votes: 3

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs. Votes: 3

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day. Votes: 3

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us. Votes: 3

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either. Votes: 3

Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes. Votes: 3

Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes. Votes: 3

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day. Votes: 3

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding. Votes: 3

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it? Votes: 3

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit. Votes: 3

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education. Votes: 3

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together. Votes: 3

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it. Votes: 3

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line. Votes: 3

Those who know how to think need no teachers. Votes: 2

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. Votes: 2

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. Votes: 2

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. Votes: 2

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. Votes: 2

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. Votes: 2

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. Votes: 2

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level. Votes: 2

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. Votes: 2

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered. Votes: 2

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products. Votes: 2

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. Votes: 2

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. Votes: 2

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge. Votes: 2

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice. Votes: 2

The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future. Votes: 2

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. Votes: 2

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great! Votes: 2

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves. Votes: 2

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later. Votes: 2

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Votes: 2

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities. Votes: 2

I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, 'Do you know who I am?' Votes: 2

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door. Votes: 2

If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.' Votes: 2

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. Votes: 2

Don't trust your teachers. Votes: 0

Books are absent teachers. Votes: 0

Instill respect for teachers. Votes: 0

Great teachers transcend ideology. Votes: 0

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers. Votes: 0

Injuries are our best teachers. Votes: 0

Our teachers deserve better feedback. Votes: 0

Enemies were teachers in disguise. Votes: 0

I'm committed to working with teachers. Votes: 0

Our enemies are our greatest teachers. Votes: 0

Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges! Votes: 0

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers. Votes: 0

Difficult people are the greatest teachers. Votes: 0

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform. Votes: 0

Computers aren’t magic; teachers are. Votes: 0

I think good teachers are underpaid. Votes: 0

My teachers were often very eccentric. Votes: 0

At our best, we're all teachers Votes: 0

Mistakes are often the best teachers. Votes: 0

Worst People Are the best TEACHERS. Votes: 0

We should be firing bad teachers. Votes: 0

I learned life from some good teachers. Votes: 0

When teachers stop learning, so do students. Votes: 0

Schools often get the teachers they deserve! Votes: 0

The best teachers are the best storytellers. Votes: 0

At our best, we are all teachers Votes: 0

Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers. Votes: 0

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature. Votes: 0

Great teachers are usually a little crazy. Votes: 0

Suffering is one of life's great teachers. Votes: 0

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat. Votes: 0

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers Votes: 0

I didn't fancy any of my teachers. Votes: 0

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent Votes: 0

My parents were both high-school music teachers. Votes: 0

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers. Votes: 0

Respect your teachers. Staring the glaring costs vision. Votes: 0

There are certain teachers who shouldn't be teachers. Votes: 0

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion. Votes: 0

My biggest struggles have been my biggest teachers. Votes: 0

If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers. Votes: 0

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers. Votes: 0

Both of my parents are actually music teachers. Votes: 0

Now all my teachers are dead except silence. Votes: 0

Modeling is the most powerful of all teachers! Votes: 0

Old teachers never die, they just grade away. Votes: 0

My teachers used to call me a failure Votes: 0

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say! Votes: 0

We teachers are rather good at magic, you know. Votes: 0

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers. Votes: 0

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers. Votes: 0

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers. Votes: 0

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. Votes: 0

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students. Votes: 0

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion. Votes: 0

I never studied, but I had the best teachers. Votes: 0

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds. Votes: 0

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin. Votes: 0

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere. Votes: 0

If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing Votes: 0

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student. Votes: 0

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became. Votes: 0

I never studied, but I had the best teachers, Votes: 0

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors. Votes: 0

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. Votes: 0

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation. Votes: 0

We must acknowledge the importance of teachers to the society. Votes: 0

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers. Votes: 0

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out. Votes: 0

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better. Votes: 0

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it. Votes: 0

Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system. Votes: 0

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers. Votes: 0

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers. Votes: 0

I learned from my teachers but became through my music Votes: 0

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers. Votes: 0

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers. Votes: 0

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers. Votes: 0

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words. Votes: 0

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner. Votes: 0

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey. Votes: 0

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. Votes: 0

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers. Votes: 0

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers. Votes: 0

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children. Votes: 0

The essence of life change when we admire our teachers kindneess. Votes: 0

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching. Votes: 0

Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves Votes: 0

I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children. Votes: 0

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. Votes: 0

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep. Votes: 0

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists. Votes: 0

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. Votes: 0

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world. Votes: 0

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning. Votes: 0

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence. Votes: 0

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. Votes: 0

The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system. Votes: 0

I did not come to collect students, but to train teachers. Votes: 0

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have. Votes: 0

I wished that teachers were the highest paid people in Israel. Votes: 0

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school. Votes: 0

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for. Votes: 0

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way... Votes: 0

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves. Votes: 0

We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends. Votes: 0

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers. Votes: 0

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off. Votes: 0

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers. Votes: 0

My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life. Votes: 0

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are. Votes: 0

I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers. Votes: 0

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets. Votes: 0

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers Votes: 0

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter. Votes: 0

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers. Votes: 0

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother. Votes: 0

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers. Votes: 0

We must question why the smartest students don't choose to become teachers. Votes: 0

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing. Votes: 0

The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people. Votes: 0

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools. Votes: 0

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit. Votes: 0

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. Votes: 0

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Votes: 0

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women. Votes: 0

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten. Votes: 0

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers. Votes: 0

Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers. Votes: 0

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God. Votes: 0

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Votes: 0

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing. Votes: 0

We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all. Votes: 0

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers. Votes: 0

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds. Votes: 0

I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot. Votes: 0

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. Votes: 0

I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers. Votes: 0

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently. Votes: 0

India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers? Votes: 0

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter. Votes: 0

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more. Votes: 0

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary. Votes: 0

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too! Votes: 0

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers. Votes: 0

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified. Votes: 0

My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older. Votes: 0

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress. Votes: 0

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart. Votes: 0

In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world. Votes: 0

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves. Votes: 0

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations. Votes: 0

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers. Votes: 0

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change. Votes: 0

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business. Votes: 0

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers. Votes: 0

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants. Votes: 0

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future. Votes: 0

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life. Votes: 0

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. Votes: 0

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle. Votes: 0

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers. Votes: 0

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids. Votes: 0

The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching. Votes: 0

The best teachers are those that can influence even the poorest of all learners. Votes: 0

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers. Votes: 0

One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris. Votes: 0

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. Votes: 0

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. Votes: 0

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned. Votes: 0

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. Votes: 0

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball. Votes: 0

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands. Votes: 0

Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you. Votes: 0

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing. Votes: 0

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. Votes: 0

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. Votes: 0

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. Votes: 0

God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. Votes: 0

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers. Votes: 0

The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers. Votes: 0

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. Votes: 0

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers. Votes: 0

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn. Votes: 0

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants? Votes: 0

It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained. Votes: 0

I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles. Votes: 0

I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong. Votes: 0

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me. Votes: 0

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. Votes: 0

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches. Votes: 0

Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family, teachers, co-workers, and other Christians. Votes: 0

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. Votes: 0

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me Duck. Votes: 0

My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself. Votes: 0

Though monetary compensation may never add up, teachers can rest assured that they are important. Votes: 0

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. Votes: 0

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day. Votes: 0

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint. Votes: 0

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers." Votes: 0

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides. Votes: 0

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them. Votes: 0

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide. Votes: 0

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure. Votes: 0

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure. Votes: 0

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. Votes: 0

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. Votes: 0

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE. Votes: 0

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn. Votes: 0

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so. Votes: 0

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn. Votes: 0

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods. Votes: 0

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it. Votes: 0

Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear Votes: 0

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great. Votes: 0

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment Votes: 0

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me. Votes: 0

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance. Votes: 0

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes. Votes: 0

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety. Votes: 0

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment. Votes: 0

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. Votes: 0

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read. Votes: 0

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. Votes: 0

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. Votes: 0

A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield. Votes: 0

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers. Votes: 0

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers. Votes: 0

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. Votes: 0

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. Votes: 0

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character. Votes: 0

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners. Votes: 0

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power Votes: 0

We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students. Votes: 0

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him. Votes: 0

Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers. Votes: 0

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. Votes: 0

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them. Votes: 0

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing. Votes: 0

Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect. Votes: 0

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. Votes: 0

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers. Votes: 0

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years. Votes: 0

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor. Votes: 0

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.' Votes: 0

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love. Votes: 0

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that. Votes: 0

The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own. Votes: 0

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers. Votes: 0

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. Votes: 0

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents. Votes: 0

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. Votes: 0

Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents. Votes: 0

Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers. Votes: 0

I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today. Votes: 0

Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything. Votes: 0

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards. Votes: 0

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much. Votes: 0

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise. Votes: 0

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world. Votes: 0

A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost. Votes: 0

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers! Votes: 0

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists. Votes: 0

The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers. Votes: 0

The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers. Votes: 0

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them. Votes: 0

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. Votes: 0

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. Votes: 0

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. Votes: 0

With the help of technology, teachers will be leaders in the transformation of education around the world. Votes: 0

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them. Votes: 0

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. Votes: 0

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools. Votes: 0

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. Votes: 0

It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students. Votes: 0

The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system? Votes: 0

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms. Votes: 0

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning. Votes: 0

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place. Votes: 0

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect. Votes: 0

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. Votes: 0

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days. Votes: 0

Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission. Votes: 0

I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal. Votes: 0

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. Votes: 0

The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids! Votes: 0

Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. Votes: 0

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other. Votes: 0

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world. Votes: 0

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle. Votes: 0

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict. Votes: 0

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now. Votes: 0

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. Votes: 0

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers. Votes: 0

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me. Votes: 0

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. Votes: 0

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs. Votes: 0

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give. Votes: 0

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core. Votes: 0

My teachers could have easily ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me. Votes: 0

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes. Votes: 0

A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers! Votes: 0

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. Votes: 0

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. Votes: 0

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. Votes: 0

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk. Votes: 0

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization. Votes: 0

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers. Votes: 0

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand. Votes: 0

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them. Votes: 0

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics. Votes: 0

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers. Votes: 0

If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance. Votes: 0

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. Votes: 0

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about. Votes: 0

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life. Votes: 0

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. Votes: 0

I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union. Votes: 0

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching. Votes: 0

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards. Votes: 0

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. Votes: 0

Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers. Votes: 0

Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools. Votes: 0

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers. Votes: 0

Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ. Votes: 0

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful. Votes: 0

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. Votes: 0

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to. Votes: 0

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs. Votes: 0

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. Votes: 0

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him. Votes: 0

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. Votes: 0

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. Votes: 0

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life. Votes: 0

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines. Votes: 0

There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child. Votes: 0

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people Votes: 0

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love. Votes: 0

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something. Votes: 0

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around. Votes: 0

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends. Votes: 0

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students. Votes: 0

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. Votes: 0

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense. Votes: 0

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people. Votes: 0

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers. Votes: 0

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that. Votes: 0

The word of God is complete, and those who don't preach the word in its fullness are false teachers. Votes: 0

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. Votes: 0

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers. Votes: 0

What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers. Votes: 0

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them. Votes: 0

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport. Votes: 0

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses. Votes: 0

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers. Votes: 0

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims. Votes: 0

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school. Votes: 0

I love talking to all the kids, and have enjoyed the enthusiasm and response from their teachers as well. Votes: 0

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America. Votes: 0

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold. Votes: 0

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent. Votes: 0

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. Votes: 0

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field. Votes: 0

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own. Votes: 0

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself. Votes: 0

Oh, be assured fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood. Votes: 0

I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures. Votes: 0

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that. Votes: 0

Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me. Votes: 0

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction. Votes: 0

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men. Votes: 0

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. Votes: 0

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do. Votes: 0

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work. Votes: 0

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers. Votes: 0

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Votes: 0

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved. Votes: 0

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are. Votes: 0

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work. Votes: 0

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes. Votes: 0

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes... Votes: 0

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen. Votes: 0

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done Votes: 0

False teachers invite people to come to the Master's table because of what's on it, not because they love the Master. Votes: 0

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear. Votes: 0

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge. Votes: 0

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work. Votes: 0

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers. Votes: 0

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers! Votes: 0

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers. Votes: 0

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is. Votes: 0

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school. Votes: 0

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining. Votes: 0

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. Votes: 0

When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me. Votes: 0

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. Votes: 0

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. Votes: 0

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father. Votes: 0

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it. Votes: 0

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale. Votes: 0

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go. Votes: 0

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am. Votes: 0

I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper. Votes: 0

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. Votes: 0

We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list. Votes: 0

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading. Votes: 0

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership. Votes: 0

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. Votes: 0

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. Votes: 0

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them. Votes: 0

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn. Votes: 0

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student. Votes: 0

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read. Votes: 0

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. Votes: 0