Quotes About Teachers

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody's perfect so I stopped practicing.

Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn't talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.