Teachers Quotes

Great teachers transcend ideology.

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

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

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

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

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

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

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

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

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.

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

We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

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

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

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

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.