Quotes About Teachers

I believe our schools will actually get better if layoffs are done carefully, such that only the very worst teachers are let go.

One of the biggest reasons that teachers have trouble with student-centered learning is that they have to give over a level of control to the kids. And, when you do that, you can have chaos, or you can have high levels of learning. Often, teachers are afraid of the chaos.

We've done a terrible job of hiring, supporting, and retaining the people tasked with the difficult responsibility of teaching our children.

I reject the notion that supporting our dedicated classroom teachers is at odds with improving the education our children receive.

We've long believed teachers know best what their students need to succeed, and that includes the creation of healthy, supportive school communities.

Our parents are the most invaluable teachers we have, and no matter how alien it might seem to ask them to enter your 'work' world, you might just be surprised what comes out of it.

I am persuaded that the phrase 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like the punishment of unshriven mortal sins in an eternal hell.

Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible — time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and departures from the truth. And literature, being lasting, is their ticket.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

The best teachers are those that can influence even the poorest of all learners.

that the new opportunities for learning require us to articulate a fundamental revision of the value of school and the roles of teachers and classrooms. The

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

the strongest predictor of students' success is related to their social circumstances. The social, intellectual, and fiscal resources, or "capital," students bring with them into schools, whether charter or traditional, are much more important than the structure of the school or even the quality of the teachers

private school teachers tend to have fewer credentials and to cling to traditional teaching styles, such as lecturing while students sit in rows and take notes. Public school teachers, by contrast, are much more likely to be certified, to hold higher degrees, and to embrace research-based innovations in curriculum and pedagogy

But after children leave their parents' arms, school is still the necessary place for knowledge and soul to spring into life and good teachers are still the instigators of that miracle.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.