Quotes About Education

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.

It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you've got to be a real teacher. You can't just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

Found out I'm actually a pretty good teacher.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

My grandfather was a history teacher, one reason the subject has been an integral part of my life.