Teacher Quotes

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

  

  Bill Moyers
  • Teacher

• The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • You
  • Teacher
  • Expectations

• Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown's teacher.

  

  John Niven
  • Teacher

• You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

  

  Darrell Royal
  • Football
  • Teacher

• You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into teaching as long as teachers are valued in the way they currently are. The way we value people is by how much we pay them.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sleep
  • Teacher
  • Someone

• We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on the board, and he farted. And you would have thought kids had seen the face of God. Kids weren't even laughing; they were just sitting there screaming, just screaming. Kids had to get carted out; kids were screaming. Kids had to get carted out, and they were going to the nurses' office. Kids are crying in the hallway. 'Oh, this is our 9/11.' And it was. It was their 9/11 'cause they never thought anything like that could ever happen.

  

  Donald Glover
  • God
  • Writing
  • Kids

• I'm just not a natural teacher.

  

  David Benioff
  • Teacher

• My grandma was so old-fashioned. She thought we were supposed to have homework every night. I would come home, and she would be like, 'Where's your homework?' and I'd be like, 'I don't have none.' She'd be like, 'I'ma call your teacher.'

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Home
  • She
  • Night

• We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's a certain way to do this.' I bought a packet of strings - some of mine were broken - and had her tune it for me. For a while, I just kept it like that. But I got the Internet finally, when I was 14, and started learning.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Broken

• Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Great
  • History
  • Education

• At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • Family
  • Age

• I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Good
  • Great
  • Teacher

• Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Important
  • Professional
  • Lawyer

• The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Job
  • Simple

• You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

  

  Danny McBride
  • People
  • Different
  • Angry

• I not only couldn't read but often couldn't hear or understand what was being said to me - by the time I'd processed the beginning of a sentence, the teacher was well on her way through a second or third.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Teacher

• But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Great
  • Today
  • Teacher

• Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum lockstep, teachers should modify their instruction to meet students' varying readiness levels, learning preferences, and interests. Therefore, the teacher proactively plans a variety of ways to 'get it' and express learning.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Philosophy
  • Interest
  • Teaching

• A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Teacher

• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Boy

• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Home
  • High

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