Teachers Quotes (1308 Quotes)

I had these ideas of interpretation that went way beyond the standard Conservatoire limits. So I was at war with my piano teachers.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

I hate to see the kids miss school, but everybody else strikes, why can't the teachers

Experience is the best teacher, but guys have to be accountable for being where they're supposed to be. That's something Sam and I have talked about. Do your job, do what you're supposed to do and plays will come your way. Take care of your things first-hand. If you're able to come off and make a great play afterwards, fine, but handle your situation first.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

I think what will happen is that the teachers will be more diligent in saying to kids to put their backpacks over by the wall and that all they need is a writing instrument. My teachers are always diligent. It's not due to a lack of diligence that this ha

A good teacher is a determined person.

These data shatter the illusion of a fair distribution of per-pupil spending in California. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the glaring inequity in the distribution of teacher talent and teacher dollars.

At the Groveton Baptist Church we are teaching about 300 students in morning and evening classes each Tuesday and Thursday. There is so much interest that we had to close registration for this session several weeks ago. We simply do not have enough teachers.

I don't share in the belief that a whole bunch of teachers are taking money and mishandling funds.

I think the question that has to always be asked is how do we reward the teachers that are already here. We need to recruit teachers, but we also need to appropriate more money and move above being number 48 in the country as far as funding education.

I'm a father, a grandfather, a teacher and a friend before I'm a coach. There's nothing more important to me than helping kids, and that's why I've never gone after a college job.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

A great teacher can live in a less-than-godlike body.

No amount of justice could bring them back or replace the emptiness I feel, but I'm glad he's off the streets. My girls are gone forever they can't be a teacher or a lawyer like two of them dreamed of.

They're trying to make the teachers pay for the political repercussions of giving (Atwater) the bonus in the first place.

The number of teachers and guides that a soul has depends upon what it seeks to accomplish and its level of awareness. Souls that take upon themselves projects of more magnitude bring to themselves more assistance.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

The students voted me student body president simply because they knew who I was, and part of that responsibility was making a speech in front of the entire school, ... I had a couple of teachers help me with it, and it ended up pushing me to do something I probably wouldn't have otherwise done. Once that happened, it didn't bother me to speak in public.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

I am always going to have a sort of 'thank you' to my attitude about the (city) of Woburn, ... I will always appreciate what the school and people like (then football coach) Walter White did for me. It got me into college and was very instrumental in my path to my livelihood as a teacher and coach.

We were looking for three qualities in our coach. First, he had to be a good teacher. He needed to be able to work well within the organization. He has to because he can't do it alone, and he had to have the respect of the players, and Dick has that.

plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is,Believe in the Great Sound

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

The writing contest is a way for teachers to get kids writing. It gives them a purpose, a real-world experience. They get feedback from others and not just from me as their classroom teacher. They have a wider audience.

Any mother alive tries to protect their family, and teachers are our family. We need to speak out and protect them.

I'm hurt and disgusted. I feel like we disrespected the community. We heard from teachers. We heard from parents. We heard from employees. Overwhelmingly, everyone wanted a later start date. No one wanted to start the seventh or the ninth.

(Local governments) still have to pay for those services. Gas prices still go up, teachers' salaries still go up, pensions still go up, ... You can have the growth in the underlying value of property taxes exploding even though there is this so-called 30 percent reduction.

There is no one teacher, no one school and no one system that can meet all the complex and diverse needs of each child. But a community united in such a cause can.

As soon as you remove user fees there's a massive expansion of demand. In Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, a total of 8 million children went to school who had not gone to school before. You need new teachers, need new classrooms there are new pressures on the system.

Let's just say there is not another dime coming from anywhere (for bilingual education). I want you to imagine the waste of money when you put a child in the classroom and that child doesn't understand the teacher, the textbook or the test. You are actually increasing an underclass who can't contribute to the economic strength of society.

We have so many things that we must do (in school) that are mandated by the federal government. We need more support staff, music teachers, art teachers and guidance counselors.

Crestline teachers don't want to strike. We want to be in our classrooms, working with our students. That's where my heart is, with the kids. We've dedicated our careers to educating Crestline's children, and walking a picket line is not how many of us want to start the school year.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

They are deliberately misleading the public to put the teachers in an unprofessional light.

I find the facilities here great. The teachers I've got to get used to their lingo and they've got to get used to mine. We tend to speak slang and sometimes that causes trouble, but I'm working on it.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

There are several reasons for this (low number). The people who were taught to garden from seed by their parents, grandparents or teachers are more likely to garden from seed later. It requires time. You can't just sow seeds and walk away. You have to nurture that seed. Many people are too busy to start from seed and they would prefer to purchase plants.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

And she stresses fighting as a last resort -- do anything to get out of fighting, I'd have Joan spar against men three times her size, and she'd give them a good beating. She's just tough, and a very good teacher. She's been at it 30 years.

A teacher affects eternity.

By working closely with these kids it makes you think as a teacher about things you can do to improve in those areas with all your kids.

Visit the class to see what's going on. Offer to chaperone trips. The teacher may end up being more supportive because you're taking interest.