417 Quotes About Teachers

Teachers and women have one important thing in common; every man and woman that is born into this world is shaped by a teacher or a woman

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

With her it's as if a text was written so that we can identify the characters, the narrator, the setting, the plot, the time of the story, and so on. I don't think it has ever occurred to her that a text is written above all to be read and to arouse emotions in the reader.

Jielimishe, usitegemee walimu kukuelimisha.

Walimu ndiyo wanaotengeneza wataalamu.

What people are looking for is someone to explain life to them. But there is no explanation and nothing to explain.

I regarded homework as a form of torture that the teachers would unleash on me.

While scholars can, of course, be activists and activists can be scholars, combining these two roles is liable to create problems and, when a political stance is taught at university, it is apt to become an orthodoxy, which cannot be questioned.

It used to be considered a failure of teaching or scholarship to work from a particular ideological standpoint. Academics were incentivized...by knowing that other scholars could - and would - point out evidence of bias or motivating reasoning and counter it with evidence and argument. Teachers could consider their attempts at objectivity successful if their students did not know what their political or ideological positions were.