Quotes About Teachers

Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.