Quotes About Education

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.

The teacher is the only one worth listening to.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

When I went to a school in Japan, they told me that both the teachers and students perform cleaning tasks here to keep the schools clean. I wondered why can't we do it in India.

There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around.

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers th' goods.

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

There is no greater learning process than to teach.