Teachers Quotes
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
George Bernard Shaw
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There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul
Colin Cotterill
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I love talking to all the kids, and have enjoyed the enthusiasm and response from their teachers as well.
Scott Cohen
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Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others. Activity flows from this virtue. Teachers who possess it fulfill the duties of their profession with enthusiasm, love, courage, and perseverance.
Basil Moreau
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I really think music in school is vital. Some pivotal moments in my life were my childhood scholastic experiences with music - teachers who found out I could sing, and encouraged me, or teachers who turned me on to music or bands I hadn't yet heard.
Dave Smalley
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Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.
Dave Carter
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In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
Alfie Kohn
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Teachers have the right to teach and students have the right to learn. Nobody has the right to take away those rights. Nobody.
Ben Mikaelsen
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Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
Bill Gates
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The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
Joseph Lancaster
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And to think, there are still places in the world where man has not been, where he has left no footprints, where the mysteries stand secure, untouched by human eyes. I want to go to these places, the quiet, timeless, ageless places, and sit, letting silence and solitude be my teachers.
Evan Tanner
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Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.
Albert Einstein
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Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
Susan Wiggs
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All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over & over, in whatever language, at whatever time. All have said, simply: Give up weak attractors for strong attractors.
David Hawkins
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Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
Sharon Draper
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Gautama Buddha
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This confirms what parents have been telling us for years now. Parents want voluntary full-day kindergarten because it works. Parents want strong classroom teachers for the same reason: because it works. No surprises here.
Janet Napolitano
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The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.
Ed Silvoso
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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.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.
Harvey Penick
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Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.
Bill Gates
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What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
Andy Hargreaves
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I wished that teachers were the highest paid people in Israel.
Arnon Milchan
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One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.
H. W. Brands