Teacher Quotes
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."
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There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
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There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.
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We're quite pleased with most of the areas that the kids tested in. We made our goals that we set at the beginning of (last) year. Each teacher has to set a goal for each one of their students for improvement, and most of them were satisfied with how they did.
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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
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I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.
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My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
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Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.
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From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.
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The best teacher is very interactive.
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“I am a school teacher doing life and death sums.”
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I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.
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A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.
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If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
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Every parent is a teacher... But not all parents teach.
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Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift -- he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.
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With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests for hiring, I worry about filtering out people with mental health problems from jobs. And with a teacher value-added model algorithm used in New York City to score teachers, I worry literally that it's not meaningful. That it's almost a random number generator.
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It doesn't matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.
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Time is the best teacher, unfortunately, it kills all of its students.
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
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I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.
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You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.
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A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
