Teacher Quotes

"In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner"

John Updike, Novelist

"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned"

George Balanchine, Dancer

"I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it"

Chris Christie, Politician

"Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives"

Jon Porter, Politician

"I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate"

Mathias Rust, Aviator

"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?"

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally"

Calvin Trillin, Journalist

"My father was a writer and an acting teacher"

Noah Hathaway, Actor

"The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961"

Sue Grafton, Novelist

"The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime"

Chris Christie, Politician

"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance"

Jon Porter, Politician

"We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom"

Major Owens, Politician

"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me"

David Guterson, Author

"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills"

Minna Antrim, Writer

"Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do"

Major Owens, Politician

"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

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