Teacher Quotes

"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

"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer"

Peter Bichsel, Writer

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

Jon Porter, Politician

"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

"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

"Great teachers transcend ideology"

Suzanne Fields

"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"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

"I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training"

Josef Albers, Artist

"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

"Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?"

William Gibson, Writer

"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

"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"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

"I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"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

"Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet"

Mike Fitzpatrick, 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

"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible"

Josef Albers, Artist

"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

"I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders"

Martin Mull, Actor

"Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty"

Jon Porter, Politician

"I didn't fancy any of my teachers"

Katie Price, Model

"But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

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