417 Quotes About Teachers

Books teach us things, teachers teach us books, and parents teach us alphabets. And they are all gods we can see, touch, feel and talk with.

This was a very parentish thing to say; parents didn’t understand that teachers never listened to explanations.

Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.

Collaboration is generally the least valued and most haphazardly executed aspect of teachers' pedagogy, and some entire schools are being built around individualization and specialization. When we then ask students to, in effect, be their brother's keeper, many understandably have no idea what comes next. And this is where we, as teachers, must have more to offer than a day-one 'abracadabra!

The typical clergy/laity system practiced among most churches is detrimental to believers. In this system only a professional class of people teaches and preaches, while the majority of the believers listen.

Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.

Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential.

You will not be able to learn something extraordinary till you meet an extraordinary teacher!