Quotes About Teachers

the biggest failure of so many people of my (baby boomer) generation, including parents, teachers, and leaders in the Church, has been our failure to pass along our faith in a compelling way to the generation now taking our place. The

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

The building was old. A more prosperous community would have torn it down years ago, but Ice Islanders just kept fixing it, making do. The prevailing attitude seemed to be that good teachers and not fancy buildings were the key to a solid education. A teacher needed books, a blackboard, chalk, and a classroom. Period. The function of the building was to keep the students warm and dry; anything else would be extravagant.

We expect our teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

[P]eople tend to remember their teachers for an entire lifetime, long after school is over.

Spiritual teachers appear when we are in need, appear when we are ready, reminding us of who we are, reminding us of what we know, pointing to our essence, pointing us towards each other, redirecting us to God, leading us to oneness, Spiritual Teachers remind us there is only one reality, Presence

Sure a boxer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; I once met a Headmaster called Meekin on a plane and he said:if boxers all owned doctorates then teachers would need to do a whole lot less fighting."

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

God divides the provision of people into two kinds: inner (b??in?) and outer (??hir?). The outward provision includes such things as food, shelter, and wellbeing. Inner provision includes knowledge, good character, contentment, and similar qualities. Even the people in one's life (friends, teachers, family, etc.) are considered provision.

I keep seeing this ad on TV. It talks about teachers. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for changing my life. They all look happy. Have they always been this happy? Did they have a perfect childhood? A perfect school life? I was happy once. But I was young. The older you get, the more you remember. The younger you are, the more you forget.

If you can read this thank a teacher.

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY.

Forty percent of teachers spend more time keeping order than teaching (Johnson, 2004).

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

K-12 teachers. Many work in classrooms for as many as thirty-five hours a week; on top of that they must assign, read, and comment on homework, prepare and grade exams, and develop next week's lesson plans.

How did we get to the point where teachers hope for good results rather than plan for them?

Today, when our just-right targets are more conceptual, teachers need to employ thinking skills to unravel information that the student has organized and retained. Further, informal self-assessment and observation techniques add to the body of evidence necessary for the teacher to truly know a student's level of performance and for the student to know his or her own level of performance in order to put forth the effort to improve.

When teachers grade by activities, it's nearly impossible to unpack the resulting data to show where the student needs to make gains. However, when teachers score by deconstructing an activity score into different benchmarks in the grade book, patterns emerge and become useful for describing the learner's performance, giving specific feedback about it, and making decisions about what to do next.

You cannot have excellent schools unless you have well-motivated heads and teachers.

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.