Quotes About Education

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

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

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

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

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.