Quotes About Students

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.