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Quotes About Teacher

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'
~ Roddy Doyle
En su lugar colocó a Delfina Gómez, una maestra de primaria y activista de la tribu del senador Higinio Martínez, un cacique de Texcoco aliado de Ricardo Monreal y Marcelo Ebrard. Con ella se consolida la contrarreforma educativa.
~ Roger Bartra
Reading was for him a narrowing, not a widening experience He saw himself as a teacher and reformer born to change the world.
~ Roger Manvell
We don't need no educationWe don't need no thought controlNo dark sarcasm in the classroomTeacher leave them kids aloneHey! Teacher! Leave them kids aloneAll in all it's just another brick in the wall.All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
~ Roger Waters
but I could see that she blamed me for the fact that her teacher was twenty-one minutes late. I
~ Roland Merullo
Sisyphus,' is an interpretation of the unavoidable limits to which everyone who is human is condemned. The constructive way of dealing with anxiety in this sense consists of learning to live with it, accepting it as a 'teacher,' to borrow Kirkegaard's phrase, to school us in confronting our human destiny.
~ Rollo May
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
~ Rory Bremner
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
One famous female Sufi mystic and religious teacher was Rabi-'ah al-' Ada-wiyyah (712?801), who after a girlhood in slavery fled to the desert, where she rejected all offers of marriage and devoted herself to prayer and scholarship. Although the most distinguished of women Sufis, Rabi-'ah was not unique, since Sufism gave all women the chance to attain a holy dignity
~ Rosalind Miles
As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.
~ Rosalind Wiseman
Miss Elson came into the room and they all stood up and said, "Good morning, Miss Elson." Miss Elson bowed and said, "Good morning, children." Then they all sat down and punched each other.
~ Louise Fitzhugh
I have only known you for a few months but I cannot realize that there was ever a time when I did not know you. . .when you had not come into my life to bless and hallow it. I will always look back to this year as the most wonderful in my life because it brought you to me... My love for you has made my life very rich and it has kept me from much of harm and evil. I owe this all to you, my sweetest teacher.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Que querias tu, afinal, meu velho mestre de primeiras letras? Lição de cor e compostura na aula; nada mais, nada menos do que quer a vida, que é das últimas letras; com a diferença que tu, se me metias medo, nunca me meteste zanga.
~ Machado de Assis
Que mundo? Tu não perdes os maus costumes de professor. O mundo, concluiu solenemente, é um espaço infinito e azul, com o sol por cima.
~ Machado de Assis
All teachers must face the fact that they are potential points of reference. The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we are, we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we are, we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very 'gifted' improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
It is a strange thing, isn't it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning?
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The one thing that all educational researchers agree about is that teacher quality matters far more than the size of the class. A great teacher can teach your child a year and a half's material in one year. A below-average teacher might teach your child half a year's material in one year.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
With classrooms like this one, people will call what is happening a behavioral issue," Hamre said. We were watching one of Stella's kids wiggling and squirming and contorting her face and altogether doing whatever she could to avoid her teacher. "But one of the things we find is that this sort of thing is more often an engagement problem than a behavioral problem. If the teacher is actually doing something interesting, these kids are quite capable of being engaged.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Teacher effects dwarf school effects: your child is actually better off in a bad school with an excellent teacher than in an excellent school with a bad teacher.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
We often think of authority as a response to disobedience: a child acts up, so a teacher cracks down. Stella's classroom, however, suggests something quite different: disobedience can also be a response to authority. If the teacher doesn't do her job properly, then the child will become disobedient. "With
~ Malcolm Gladwell
When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.
~ Majid Kazmi