417 Quotes About Teachers

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

We need superhero teachers to make ordinary students extraordinary human beings.

Great teachers answer your questions and leave you to question their answers.

If I had to take any standardized test today that was important to my future and would be assessed by the scoring processes I have long been a part of, I promise you I would protest, I would fight, I would sue, I would go on a hunger strike or march on Washington ... but I would never allow that massive and ridiculous business to have any say in my future without battling it to the bitter, bitter end. Do what you want, America, but at least you have been warned.

We want our students to consider our classrooms relevant to their world and responsive to their needs, so when world events dredge up new discussion needs, we shouldn't inadvertently signal that students should save them for the hallway, the lunchroom, and their social media.

Uninterested kidsListening to uninterested teachers Teaching uninteresting topics While having access to the most interesting device of all timeA PHONE!(This is a generalization, I got mad love for teachers)

I'm not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life...

By the time they're in college, it's gone too far. They've had twelve years without disciplined learning and they don't know how to apply themselves. They haven't learned to study or to pace their work so that projects get completed on time. They fall asleep in lectures because they expect to be entertained not educated.

Whenever an apprentice’s rising skills and talent exceeds the master’s aptitude and expertise, the understudy must move on because frequently it is too bruising for the eclipsed master’s ego to abide.