Quotes About Education

There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

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

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.

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

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any 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?

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.