All Quotes

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.
‐‐ Sugata Mitra

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
‐‐ Solomon Ortiz

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.
‐‐ Chi McBride

Teachers are performers, just like I am.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
‐‐ Julius Erving

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.
‐‐ Tom Paulin

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.
‐‐ Jon Porter

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
‐‐ A. Bartlett Giamatti

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.
‐‐ Matthew Lesko

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.
‐‐ Clea Duvall

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.
‐‐ Denise Juneau

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.
‐‐ Tom Hulce

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
‐‐ Kevin James

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.
‐‐ Jim Hunt

Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.
‐‐ Laurene Powell Jobs

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
‐‐ Jeb Bush

Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.
‐‐ Bruce Dickinson

Teachers need to be paid like professionals.
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
‐‐ Alan Bennett

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
‐‐ Arne Duncan

Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.
‐‐ Sugata Mitra

Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.
‐‐ Curtis Granderson

Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying to make children's lives different, if not always better.
‐‐ Susan Straight

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
‐‐ Steve Wozniak

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
‐‐ Arne Duncan

Teachers tell me that they'd like to work more closely with parents.
‐‐ Jim Knight

Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
‐‐ Michael Gove

Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.
‐‐ Taylor Mali

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.
‐‐ Lawrence M. Krauss

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
‐‐ Barbara Kruger

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
‐‐ Oliver E. Williamson

Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
‐‐ Stephen Carter

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
‐‐ Bill Nye

Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.
‐‐ Alafair Burke

Teaching emotional intelligence skills to people with life-threatening illnesses has been shown to reduce the rate of recurrence, shrink recovery times, and lower death rates.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
‐‐ Bill Ayers

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
‐‐ Jane Welsh Carlyle

Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.
‐‐ Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten