417 Quotes About Teachers

Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage--

Some of us Teachers who consider ourselves to be smarter than our students will realise how worthless we are if we ever enter a classroom and find it devoid of students. Without students we are nobodies.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.

It quickly became apparent that to Mr. K, there was no such thing as an untalented kid—just a kid who didn’t work hard enough. You are going to fix this problem, he said when he diag- nosed whatever was wrong, and there was never any question. Of course you would. It was just a matter of trying and trying and trying some more. He yelled not because we’d never learn, but because he was absolutely certain that we would.

There is no happiness without hard work

[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.