Quotes About Youth

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn't write my name on it, but I'm sure he figured out it was me.

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

We must question why the smartest students don't choose to become teachers.

I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

You have to remember, Kanai, she said at length, that as a young man Nirmal was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to mercenary.

Children go to school for their first glimpse into the life of the mind. Not for jobs. If I thought that my teaching is nothing but a means of finding jobs, I'd stop teaching tomorrow.

I read your poems with interest and found them serious, original, linguistically fresh, but first of all you must learn to curb your excess of emotion and write with more distance. As if you the person writing the poems and you the suffering young man are two different people, and as though the former observes the latter coolly, distantly, even with a measure of amusement.

She was many years older than my husband, running on the fumes of her beauty.