Quotes About Education

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.