Quotes About Education

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had.

I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

When I teach people, I marry them.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student.

We must acknowledge the importance of teachers to the society.