teachers Quotes

Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of \'The Catcher in the Rye,\' and certainly no one came to the 1951 Novel\'s defense.

We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt.

I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a time when they decided that because not every kid in the class could understand or remember those things they wouldn\'t teach them anymore because it wasn\'t fair on the less good ones. So they withheld knowledge. Then I suppose the next lot of teachers didn\'t have the knowledge to withhold.

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

I\'ve always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

Indian-Americans are physicians, engineers, CEOs, professors, teachers, entrepreneurs. They are a vital part of the United States\' economic and social fabric. Because of this long history, the bonds among our people and our cultures will remain strong.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else\'s hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I\'d stop and say, \'Is this working for any of you?\' The kids were like, \'What is he doing?\'

As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.

One of my acting teachers once said that rejection is God\'s protection. There\'s something in it.

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you\'re not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

At school, I was bored with the teachers, and there were moments where I felt they were singling me out.

My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff.

Teachers need to be paid like professionals.

I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone enters that Life, which is the culmination of all life, then he is ipso facto the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, because there is no distinction there.

My dad and some teachers were constantly pushing me to do better than I was doing because they all knew that I could. I was not interested in what they wanted me to do well in at the time, but still, the concept that there\'s a great land of opportunity out there, and all you have to do is go attack it, was not something foreign to me. It\'s why I\'m one of the few members of my family that left home.

I often hear that it\'s unfair that athletes should make what they make versus teachers, because who\'s more important. But that\'s not how the market works. Markets don\'t sign things. You know what you\'re worth is what somebody will pay you. It\'s not some arbitrary - the purpose of a company is not to create jobs and health care. That\'s not why they exist. And it\'s not to create fairness or any of that. That\'s not why people form businesses and try to sell a service or a product.

Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.

It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That\'s what we do, and we\'re proud of the success we\'ve had here doing that, and it\'s something we\'ll certainly continue to do.

I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.

I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.

I\'m the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I\'m still convinced that it\'s teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

The CDC is saying, in order to be safe, there are a number of steps that can be taken. Vaccinating teachers is one of them, but having smaller class sizes, having kids more separated on buses, more PPE, more testing, facilities upgrades, those are additional steps that can be taken.

I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful and so irreverent and so smart and encouraging.

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