417 Quotes About Teachers

We teachers break our bodies to give you a shirt that you will wear in the future, to conferences, to presidential speeches, to autograph signings. That is up to you and if you can do that for at least in a little thank to us. Then thank you, thank you all.

The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen students or fewer are a family, and feel and act like one.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum.

Awesome read full of nostalgia for me. -kidsbookzone

It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.

One great thing about subbing is that if I go to a different school every day I can wear the same outfit all week.

When we teach English, the use of a language is a better identification (sometimes) than the one in your wallet. How we use the language, our words choice - tells people who we are, and what we think, and what we feel about them...Literature is the hallmark of history...