Teachers Quotes

• It's not our job to be liked teachers. Its our job to help them be smart students. Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!

  

  Esme Raji Codell
  • Job
  • Students
  • Teachers

• Too often, teachers assume that they are introducing a book or concept to students for the first time. In fact, many units are repeated over the course of a student's K-12 experience.

  

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs
  • Book
  • Students
  • Concept

• Since emotional regulation is the critical issue in managing the effects of trauma and neglect, it would make an enormous difference if teachers, army sergeants, foster parents, and mental health professionals were thoroughly schooled in emotional-regulation techniques. Right now this still is mainly the domain of preschool and kindergarten teachers, who deal with immature brains and impulsive behavior on a daily basis and who are often very adept at managing them.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Behavior
  • Trauma
  • Regulation

• The atmosphere in the school lunchroom is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Duty
  • Prison
  • Atmosphere

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

  

  John Bradshaw
  • Learn
  • Mistakes
  • Teachers

• We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Children
  • Teachers
  • Schools

• Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage Do not believe in conjecture Do not believe in authority, or teachers, or elders But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Authority
  • Tradition
  • Statements

• When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

  

  Milton Berle
  • School
  • Kid
  • Teachers

• Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Say
  • Listen
  • Teachers

• Our teachers deserve better feedback.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Teachers
  • Feedback

• Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Saints
  • Fascination

• God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

  

  Betty Eadie
  • God
  • Change
  • Mistakes

• Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

  

  Will Durant
  • Education
  • Happiness
  • Harmony

• I can't wait. People have been asking me in class, and teachers have been talking to me: 'Are you nervous?' I'm excited. I can't wait. I think Saturday is going to be the longest day of my life.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • People
  • Nervous
  • Teachers

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

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Learning
  • Teachers
  • Describe

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

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Children
  • Teachers

• Most teachers we work with are intrigued to learn that abused and neglected students are likely to interpret any deviation from routine as danger and that their extreme reactions usually are expressions of traumatic stress.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Learn
  • Danger
  • Reactions

• One of the biggest reasons that teachers have trouble with student-centered learning is that they have to give over a level of control to the kids. And, when you do that, you can have chaos, or you can have high levels of learning. Often, teachers are afraid of the chaos.

  

  Eva Moskowitz
  • Kids
  • Control
  • Learning

• Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out of the room and never come back, which I did.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Feel
  • Teachers
  • Outside people

• I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • Life
  • Teachers

• If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Lose
  • Teachers
  • Forests

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

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Teachers
  • Cream
  • Skim milk

• Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Cost
  • Teachers

• Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"

  

  Eve Hewson
  • Job
  • College
  • Teachers

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