Teachers Quotes

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Today i am feeling proud that i have a greatest teacher. My encouragement my motivation and my leader is only one that is my teacher. From silent to talkative from dread to cheer all credit goes to teacher for their such a encouragement.

~ Avinash Advani

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America.

~ Pat Conroy

There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.

~ Victoria Kahler

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

~ Steve Martin

Even we set aside the nearly 50 percent of all beginner teachers who choose to leave the profession within five years—and ignore the evidence that those who leave are worse performers than those who stay—it is unclear whether teachers are formally terminated for poor performance any less frequently than are other workers.

~ Dana Goldstein

Teaching remains a heroic act to me, and teachers live a necessary and all-important life. We are killing their spirit with unnecessary pressure and expectation that seem forced and destructive to me. Long ago I was one of them. I still regret I was forced to leave them. My entire body of work is because of men and women like them.

~ Pat Conroy

Though I’ve never met a teacher who was not happy in retirement, I rarely meet one who thinks that their teaching life was not a grand way to spend a human life. The unhappy ones are the young ones, those who must teach in public schools when the whole nation seems at war with the very essence of teaching.

~ Pat Conroy

One thing I more and this is all I have to say...High School is not a separate unit from you. We are apart of you. Every man, woman, and child in this community is a part...Your ways of life in your homes and your town reflect here in the school. You can help us or you can hurt us. Our success depends largely on you. I used to think when I first started teaching school that it was all up to the teachers and the pupils. I have changed my mind. The little island of humanity that is each one of you must unite with other islands and become a mainland if we are to have a successful school.

~ Jesse Stuart

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

~ Stuart Sherman

Our professional competence and pride should rest not alone in our possession of knowledge but as well in our ability to communicate it. Of course we shall carry on our research, and of course we shall applaud the colleague who 'produces,' but we shan't be happy if he offers that as a substitute for inspiring young people with a desire for knowledge, a sense of taste, and a regard for virtue.

~ Denham Sutcliffe

Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it, it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself.

~ Denham Sutcliffe

Did one learn or was one shaped?

~ Paul Russell

Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks had watered theirs down to keep their heads lucid), and, last but not least, six or seven eager and receptive youths seated at one’s feet.

~ Paul Russell

I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

We teachers break our bodies to give you a shirt that you will wear in the future, to conferences, to presidential speeches, to autograph signings. That is up to you and if you can do that for at least in a little thank to us. Then thank you, thank you all.

~ Pedro A. Pérez Raymond

In brief, the teaching process, as commonly observed, has nothing to do with the investigation and establishment of facts, assuming that actual facts may ever be determined. Its sole purpose is to cram the pupils, as rapidly and as painlessly as possible, with the largest conceivable outfit of current axioms, in all departments of human thought—to make the pupil a good citizen, which is to say, a citizen differing as little as possible, in positive knowledge and habits of mind, from all other citizens. In other words, it is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but this is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

~ H.l. Mencken

The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything

~ Lemony Snicket

To teach, learn. To learn, teach.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

~ Louis L'amour

We are more than role models for our students, we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum.

~ Patricia Sequeira Belvel

It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.

~ Patricia Sequeira Belvel

Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!

~ Tae Yun Kim

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Honor those who inspire you, who show you the way. The teachers, artists , writers, the healers. Respect their time, their intellectual properties, their fee. They live a life of service, but this is also the way they make their living. This is how they feed, clothe and shelter themselves and their families. This is how they can continue to do their work in the world.

~ Eileen Anglin

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Ultimately, classroom teachers are the targets of this anger, as they are the public face of the education system. As a group, teachers work very hard with limited resources. They are called upon to equalize the inequities our society creates, and to offer not just equal educational opportunities, but equal educational outcomes to all children.

~ Christopher Danielson

My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

~ Neal Shusterman

No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.

~ Saul Bellow

Every class has pupils who mimic the teachers particularly well and perform for their classmates, a class without such teacher-mimics would have something lifeless about it.

~ Elias Canetti

The books are your teacher, after and before school.

~ Deyth Banger

The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

~ Tucker Elliot

If I wouldn’t have spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher, I’d know how to punctuate. Good thing I normally write poetry.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

~ Tucker Elliot

Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?'I thought about a humanities teacher I’d worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I’d worked with in Germany. I said, 'I think most schools have a resident idiot.

~ Tucker Elliot