Teaching Quotes

It’s not that I had more important things to do or that I didn’t want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful—rather, it’s this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.

~ Tucker Elliot

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

~ Pat Conroy

The sun appeared between the twin spires of the cathedral as its light reflected off the crescent and star that rose out of the dome on top of the mosque. It was beautiful, and surreal. In one instant, the bells rang out from the cathedral and if I closed my eyes then I could easily imagine that I was back home in Europe, but in the next, the call to morning prayer sounded from the mosque, and it was a stark reminder of how far away I actually was from my true home.

~ Tucker Elliot

Educators are in the news, too. Usually that’s bad. I had a favorite college professor. He used to tell us, 'If you make CNN as a teacher, you’re probably going to jail.

~ Tucker Elliot

Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created a place of real beauty. It really makes you stop and think. Uncle Google should be spitting out eight hundred million things American schools have done right. The fact things are so screwed up makes no sense. If you believe Uncle Google, then we’ve done the exact opposite from Indira’s family—in the land of hope and plenty we’ve created a place that’s ugly. We have so much. Can things really be so bad? Maybe we can’t fix our schools because as individuals we’ve never truly been broken. Or maybe Chinese lanterns make everyone wax philosophical.

~ Tucker Elliot

The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian nations, and it influenced impoverished Muslims in the third ring, who wore Manchester United tee shirts with 'Rooney' on the back, twisting further the attitudes and perceptions of those who were bent already toward radicalism.

~ Tucker Elliot

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It was only a couple of chickens. Real chickens. The kind that walk around clucking and pecking. Which is what they were doing. Only no one else seemed to care, or even notice. This is normal? Obviously I had a little hiccup reading my notecards. Understandable. I was talking to forty orphans who had to share a dirt floor with two chickens. No one in college had ever prepared me for this scenario.

~ Tucker Elliot

Learn to discover your divine potential.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

.keep the child inside you alive..

~ Boris Kovalík

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.

~ Garret Keizer

Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.

~ Roma Downey

Did one learn or was one shaped?

~ Paul Russell

.you are not him or her, you be you..

~ Boris Kovalík

.fear aint real..

~ Boris Kovalík

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

.if you're looking into infinity of deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..

~ Boris Kovalík

.nothing's perfect and that's perfect..

~ Boris Kovalík

.if you're looking in to deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..

~ Boris Kovalík

.burn, everybody likes to watch the fire..

~ Boris Kovalík

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

~ Allan Dare Pearce

.if you think like any others you will not be different..

~ Boris Kovalík

.it's allright not to know all the answers..

~ Boris Kovalík

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

~ Olabisi Obideyi

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

~ Immanuel Kant

All identification is for control and ownership.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Life is a practice. When you 'fail,' you can immediately begin practicing again.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Immediate gratification is a dream killer.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Governments are the deadliest terrorist organizations that have ever existed if body count means anything.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The only way out of your problems is straight through them.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There is no reward beyond the moment. Each moment contains life's reward.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Become a dignitary by treating others with dignity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Negativity is a natural part of your perfect self.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract at the same farm every year, where the farmer pays you on time and doesn't cheat or abuse you, then it's in your best interest to show up consistently from year to year.

~ Ruth Ozeki

The number one skill in life is not giving up.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Are you free or were you sold a facsimile of freedom?

~ Bryant Mcgill

You teach others how to treat you by how you treat others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student.

~ Bryant Mcgill