Teacher Quotes

"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students"

"My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme"

"So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount"

"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York"

Judy Collins, Musician

"We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children"

George Shearing, Musician

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning"

Brad Henry, Politician

"In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms"

Chuck Norris, Actor

"I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way"

Alan Hovhaness, Composer

"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron"

Horace Mann, Educator

"I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years"

Amartya Sen, Philosopher

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron"

Horace Mann, Educator

"All I wanted was to be a university teacher"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward"

Vernon Law, Athlete

"If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught"

Oscar Hammerstein II, Musician

"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers"

Nancy Cartwright, Actress

"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"I was an elementary school teacher"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early"

Rita Dove, Poet

"My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work"

Mark Mothersbaugh, Musician

"I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed"

Morgan Spurlock, Director

"As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me"

Devon Sawa, Actor

"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account"

Hugh Mackay

"I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers"

Luke Ford, Writer

"It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust"

Gertrude Jekyll, Celebrity

"I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies"

Dakota Fanning, Actress

"That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study"

Anton Seidl, Musician

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