Teachers Quotes

• What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own.

  

  Eleanor Duckworth
  • Children
  • Security
  • Learned

• 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

• 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

• Our teachers deserve better feedback.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Teachers
  • Feedback

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • Life
  • Teachers

• 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
  • Listening
  • Students
  • Teachers

• We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning.

  

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs
  • Discipline
  • Teachers
  • Curriculum

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

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Saints
  • Fascination

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

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Children
  • Teachers
  • Schools

• 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

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

  

  Evan Esar
  • Cost
  • Teachers

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

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Children
  • Teachers

• 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

• Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

  

  Eva Amurri
  • Responsibility
  • Parent
  • Educator

• 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

• 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

• Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Students
  • Teachers

• When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • War
  • Parents
  • Growing Up

• 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

• Liberals spend a whole lot of time trying to convince us they love teachers, but dig even skin deep into the matter, and it becomes evident that liberals hate teachers.

  

  Mike Gallagher
  • Convince
  • Becomes
  • Liberals

• Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Purpose
  • Teachers
  • Opponents

• Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Learn
  • Teachers
  • Trained

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