Quotes About Achievement

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

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

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

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

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat

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

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.