Teacher Quotes - page 13

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education. (Sue Kelly)
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. View quote
Samuel Dash
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power. View quote
Tom Brown, Jr.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. View quote
Toru Takemitsu
I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round. View quote
Taron Egerton
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar. View quote
Trevor Nunn
I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades. View quote
Tyler Hilton
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. View quote
Vernon Law
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it. View quote
Vijay Singh
My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure. View quote
Willard Wigan
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher. (William Glasser)
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. View quote
William Glasser
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help. View quote
William Glasser
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about. View quote
William Glasser
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. View quote
William Glasser
It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear. View quote
J. C. Ryle
A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives. View quote
Deval Patrick
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation. View quote
Jack Ma
In February 1860 Jeff Davis offered a bill in the Senate wh. passed, making all the territories slave territory. See Davis' book. He was opposed to letting the people decide whether or not they would have slavery – Wm. A. Smith, President of Randolph Macon quit his duties as a teacher and in 1857-8-9-60 traveled all over Virginia preaching slavery and proving it was right by the bible. View quote
John S. Mosby
I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies. View quote
Dakota Fanning
I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat. (Cristiano Ronaldo)
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. View quote
David Guterson
I don't believe it's possible to be neutral. The world is already moving in certain directions, and to be neutral, to be passive in a situation like that, is to collaborate with whatever is going on. And I, as a teacher, do not want to be a collaborator with whatever is happening in the world. I want myself, as a teacher, and I want you, as students, to intercede with whatever is happening in the world. View quote
Howard Zinn
Malala is a brave and gentle advocate of peace who through the simple act of going to school became a global teacher. She said one pen can change the world - and proved how one young woman can lead the way. View quote
Ban Ki-moon
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. View quote
William Hazlitt