Teacher Quotes

"I learned life from some good teachers"

"America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way"

Karl Barth, Theologian

"You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher"

Joan Cusack, Actress

"My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need"

Christopher Bond, Politician

"The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

"To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher"

Arthur Holly Compton, Scientist

"Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter"

Charles Phillips

"I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry"

Roald Hoffmann, Scientist

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops"

Henry Adams, Historian

"Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed"

Mary Stuart Masterson, Actress

"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself"

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more"

Jon Secada, Musician

"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction"

Sheldon Jackson, Politician

"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

"Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world"

Nina Simone, Musician

"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing"

Mother Jones, Activist

"Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger"

Terry Prachett, Author

"Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this"

Knute Nelson, Politician

"But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher"

William Osler, Scientist

"And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor"

Steve Case, Businessman

"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute"

Loni Anderson, Actress

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