Quotes About Teachers

les profs ne sont pas préparés à la collision entre le savoir et l'ignorance, voilà tout ! (p. 290)

It is a truism that no profession welcomes the end of the work week with more anticipation than teachers.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

SIOP's authors never explain the benefits of standardization; yet standardization was clearly their intent. They say they first conceived of SIOP "as a research and supervisory tool to determine if observed teachers incorporated key sheltered techniques consistently in their lessons.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

Meanwhile, in the government school, I guess that children were awaiting the arrival of their teachers from the plusher suburbs of Accra, caught in the snarled traffic on the Cape Coast highway, reluctant conscripts to the poor fishing village. No matter, the children could patiently wait, playing on the swings and roundabouts thoughtfully provided by their American donors.

We dole out lip-service to the importance of education—lip-service and, just occasionally, a little grant of money; we postpone the school-leaving age, and plan to build bigger and better schools; the teachers slave conscientiously in and out of school hours; and yet, as I believe, all this devoted effort is largely frustrated, because we have lost the tools of learning, and in their absence can only make a botched and piecemeal job of it.

BOTOLPHS (pl.n) Huge benign tumours which archdeacons and old chemistry teachers affect to wear on the sides of their noses.

It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly." "Very few teachers can," I{Jerry}said. "Why not? They ought to." I agreed.

By comparison with them, among today's schoolteachers there are too many plain "salary-man" drudges. Or perhaps even more than salary men, there are too many bureaucrat types among those who become teachers. The kind of education these people dispense isn't worth a damn. There's absolutely nothing of interest in it. So it's no wonder that students today prefer to spend their time reading comic books.

Besides these people there are many directors I revere as teachers: Shimazu Yasujir? (1897–1945), Yamanaka Sadao (1909–1938), Mizoguchi Kenji, Ozu Yasujir? and Naruse Mikio. When I think about these people, I want to raise my voice in that old song: "… thanks for our teacher's kindness, we have honored and revered.…" But none of them can hear me now.

These kinds of events, though seemingly glamorous and sophisticated from the outside, are often organized with the finesse of a kindergarten nativity play, and one whose teachers are all lapsed members of Narcotics Anonymous.

I had a few teachers when they would hear a noise they would immediately be like, 'Nadine, outside!' I spent about two years standing outside the physics classroom.

I didn't do very well at school - teachers picked on me, I'm sure of it - and I'd stay out all hours of the night with my mates.

I was in sixth grade at Koko Head Elementary School in Honolulu, and was chosen to pin the 50th star on the American flag in front of my teachers and classmates at a special assembly to celebrate statehood.

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

Many teachers, especially those in more affluent communities, believe they are treated no better than a customer-service representative at a store.

Children are born with varying levels of talent and intelligence, but possessing natural smarts and skills is no guarantee of success. It takes more than that: it takes work on the part of parents and teachers to cultivate these qualities, to instill in children the drive and character necessary to translate their natural gifts into extraordinary results.

But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.

That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

At school in the 1970s, no one cared about bullying. I spent the first four years being the apple of the teachers' eye and being bullied for it.