Quotes About Education

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

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.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"

At our best, we are all teachers