Quotes About Support

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

I'm committed to working with teachers.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.