Quotes About Teachers

Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination.

and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man's only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.

I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

We don't know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

What teachers do actually matters. Their ideas count. They are agents for change in our schools.

We'll always be indebted to our parents for giving us the most precious gift of life, and to our teachers for illuminating our life with knowledge. All our achievements of today are the fruits of selfless contributions and relentless efforts by our parents and teachers, who like candlesticks consumed themselves just to brighten our lives.

You'll find that Loyalty is always reciprocated in life, and unquestioned loyalty often earns tremendous respect. There is something fundamentally important missing in your life, if you don't feel any loyalty towards your family, friends, teachers, leaders, employees and employers. And there is definitely something wrong in your character, in my view, if you don't have loyalty towards your nation.

Becoming culturally competent in facilitating difficult dialogues on race presupposes that parents and teachers must first do the necessary work of confronting their own biases, prejudices, and assumptions about human behavior. Self-healing must come before other healing.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

So many teachers teach us but we shall always remember certain teachers

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

Because teachers' work consists of affecting their students, they are dependent on their students both for the actual success of their work and evidence of that success

To work effectively with challenging students, teachers must spend a lot of time in lesson planning. Hidden in every typical set of class activities are trapdoors and land mines that can cause challenging students to disappear or explode.

Darrell knew where the teachers lived now, in the building facing south, except those who, like Miss Potts and

Man, I think if teachers knew that, they'd be asking all the scrappy kids at school if they were gay, just to get it out there and stop having to bandage up the poor Mormon kids who didn't see it coming!

I was always admonished by my English teachers in their heavily accented, Viennese-inflected English not to speak this abomination of an "American dialect" or "American slang" and never to use "American spelling" with its simplifications that testified prima facie to the uncultured and simpleton nature of Americans.