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Quotes About Teachers

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.
~ Robert Pattinson
There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.
~ Max Anders
Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
~ Michael Gove
Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care. Most people appreciate sincere guidance.
~ Michael Hersch
They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.
~ Michael Jackson
Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.
~ Nancy MacLean
To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.
~ Michael Bennet
Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?
~ Narendra Modi
India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers?
~ Narendra Modi
We must question why the smartest students don't choose to become teachers.
~ Narendra Modi
Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan served this country well, he did not celebrate his birthday, he celebrated it for teachers.
~ Narendra Modi
I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.
~ Parker J. Palmer
A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.
~ Paulo Coelho
Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
~ Paulo Freire
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
~ Richard Hamming
That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.
~ Rick Perry
We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.
~ Robert Reich
I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a connection to them I would have gotten more out of school.
~ Ryan Montgomery
Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Many people have been positive influences in my life. My parents, whom I mentioned, were the most important, but many of my teachers were also a big help to me.
~ Samuel Alito
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
~ Susan Wiggs
Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.
~ Mike Schmoker, Results
Teachers' favorite color ink, splashed and dripped down his face a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising his life.
~ Jazz Feylynn
There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan