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Quotes About Teachers

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
~ Abe Fortas
I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.
~ Monty Roberts
Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.
~ Kenneth Arrow
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
~ Peter Matthiessen
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people
~ Daniel Berrigan
As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.
~ Alma Adams
My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.
~ Jeff Goldblum
Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.
~ Gilbert Highet
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.
~ John Nelson Darby
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.
~ Neal Shusterman
The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.
~ Malala Yousafzai
Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.
~ Albrecht Durer
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.
~ Todd Whitaker
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.
~ Colin O'Donoghue
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
~ Diane Ravitch
Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.
~ Deborah Meier
This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.
~ Dan Millman
I think good teachers are underpaid.
~ Peter Brimelow
Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.
~ Loren Eiseley
Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.
~ John Lewis
The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.
~ D. James Kennedy