Teacher famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.
-- David Oyelowo -
Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.
-- David Perkins -
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
-- David Perkins -
Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.
-- David Platt -
I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign - teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They're making up the backbone of this field organization in the country.
-- David Plouffe -
The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?
-- David Plouffe -
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
-- David Price -
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
-- David Puttnam -
The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.
-- David Puttnam -
Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.
-- David Puttnam -
A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.
-- David Puttnam -
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.
-- David Sedaris -
We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
-- David Selby -
I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else from a teacher or learn something else from a student, I learn something else from a parent. There's so much to know when you talk about education.
-- David Shuster -
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
-- David Soul -
We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.
-- David Warlick -
I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.
-- David Warlick -
The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and exalted-a fireman giving his life to save someone else's. Kindness is love with hands and hearts and minds. It is both whimsical-causing our faces to crack into a smile-and deeply touching-causing our eyes to shimmer with tears. And its miraculous nature is such that the more acts of kindness we offer, the more of them we have to give, for acts of kindness are always drawn from the endless well of love.
-- Dawna Markova -
Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.
-- Daymond John -
Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
-- Dean Koontz -
When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.
-- Dean Norris -
We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what we're not paying attention to. We can find out what's right for us.
-- Dean Ornish -
Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you know. Reach for heights that you never thought possible. Go to places you have deemed off limits. This is the time to take off the shell of your past and step into the rich possibilities of your future. God does not give us dreams that we cannot fulfill. If you want to do something great with your life-whether it's to fall madly in love, become a teacher, be a great parent-if you aspire to do something beyond what you are doing now, this is the time to begin. Trust yourself.
-- Debbie Ford -
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.
-- Debbie Macomber -
Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.
-- Deborah Meier -
[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea . . . setting up debates where people learn not to listen to each other because they're so busy trying to win the debate.
-- Deborah Tannen -
Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, Where is all the money going to come from? And he replied without hesitation, From wherever it is at the moment.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
-- Deepak Chopra -
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.
-- Denis McDonough -
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
-- Denis Waitley -
For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.
-- Denise Juneau -
Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.
-- Denise Juneau -
Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.
-- Denise Levertov -
By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event where if you took your classroom on a student field trip, they would summarily be obliterated. That should be rule No. 1.
-- Dennis Miller -
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
-- Dennis Quaid -
I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.
-- Derek Jacobi -
When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
-- Derek Jeter -
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.
-- Dermot Healy -
The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.
-- Derrick Jensen -
A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.
-- Deval Patrick -
I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.
-- Devon Sawa -
I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.
-- Devon Sawa -
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
-- Dhani Harrison -
It is very good to see thousands of new teachers, so that with our thoughts, we can gradually change the world -send peace to the world. That's the best contribution to world peace-first the students should find their peace, and then they share with the other students.
-- Dharma Mittra -
There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.
-- Diane Arbus -
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.
-- Diane Cilento -
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
-- Diane Ravitch -
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
-- Diane Ravitch -
What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.
-- Diane Ravitch -
Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.
-- Diane Ravitch -
The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.
-- Diane Ravitch -
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
-- Diane Ravitch -
Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.
-- Diane Ravitch -
I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
-- Dick Cavett -
When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.
-- Didi Conn -
My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.
-- Didi Conn -
I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.
-- Diego Luna -
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
-- Diogenes -
You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
-- Diogenes -
The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that it stands him in good stead with his superiors if he is constantly sending up to them aspirants who 'make good.' He therefore never tries to hold back a promising pupil, because he has no need to fear that pupil, if allowed to penetrate into the Mysteries, would spy out the nakedness of the land; he will rather bring back a report of its exceeding richness, and thereby confirm the statements of his teacher and spur his fellow pupils to yet greater eagerness.
-- Dion Fortune -
Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.
-- Dizzy Dean -
Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.
-- Dizzy Dean -
While the body sleeps our soul or spirit is having many adventures. It may travel to the spirit realm to meet with master teachers and guides to obtain advice or to learn lessons. It also may travel to other parts of our world or even venture outward to other worlds and dimensions.
-- Dolores Cannon -
My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.
-- Domhnall Gleeson -
My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.
-- Dominic Monaghan -
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.
-- Don Herold -
So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
-- Donald A. Norman -
We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
-- Donald A. Norman -
Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is no alternative––to enable learning while traveling, or while in remote locations, or when one wishes to study a topic for which there is not easy access to teachers. Robot teachers will help make lifelong learning a practicality. They can make it possible to learn no matter where one is in the world, no matter the time of day. Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule
-- Donald A. Norman -
Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me Duck.
-- Donald Dunn -
I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.
-- Donald Trump -
A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.
-- Donalyn Miller -
If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.
-- Donalyn Miller -
Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.
-- Donna Fargo -
I was seventeen and the star of my high school play. I was supposed to kiss my leading man, but I couldn't stand the guy. I really didn't want to kiss him. All during rehearsals, I refused to kiss him. Then my drama teacher told me, "If you don't kiss him on opening night, you'll flunk drama class. So I kissed him, and that was my first kiss.
-- Donna Mills -
We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
-- Donna Shalala -
If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.
-- Donna VanLiere -
The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.
-- Donnie Burns -
The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -
People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.
-- Doug E. Fresh -
For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are.
-- Douglas B. Reeves -
In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!
-- Dr. Seuss -
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
-- Dr. Seuss -
Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson
-- Drake -
The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!
-- Dree Hemingway -
Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.
-- Duke of Wellington -
Whether youre working in corporate America or youre a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - were all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When Psych ends, I will be looking for another job.
-- Dule Hill -
Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding....
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.
-- Dylan Moran -
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
-- e. e. cummings -
I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.
-- E. J. Hughes -
The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they were a team as soon as they became The Souls. Then after a while, teacher and team agreed that they were arguing chicken-or-egg. Whichever way it began--chicken-or-egg, team-or-The Souls--it definitely ended with an egg. Definitely, an egg.
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
-- E. Michael Burke -
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about
-- Earl Nightingale -
For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.
-- Eckhart Tolle
