More Inspiring Teacher Quotes And Sayings

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“Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses’ interests, not the members.”
– Peter Brimelow

“Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals,’ the ones who somehow know how to teach.”
– Peter Drucker

“I’m embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.”
– Phil McGraw

“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.”
– Philip Wylie

“We spend the first twelve months of our children‘s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Your best teacher is your last mistake.”
– Ralph Nader

“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”
– Robert Frost

“Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth. They protect it. That’s crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don’t create the wealth themselves.”
– Rush Limbaugh

“For whatever reason, I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.”
– Sally Ride

“I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.”
– Scott Hamilton

“Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.”
– Shahrukh Khan

“Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.”
– Sidney Hook

“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.”
– Simone Weil

“It’s not the teaching, it’s the learning.”
– Sly Stone

“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
– Solomon Ortiz

“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.”
– Steve Harvey

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”
– Stevie Wonder

“Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.”
– Suze Orman

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.”
– Sylvester Stallone

“I think once you’re in the public eye, whether you’re a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you’re automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.”
– Talib Kweli

“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.”
– Temple Grandin

“I had people in my life who didn’t give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.”
– Temple Grandin

“Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.”
– Temple Grandin

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.”
– Thomas Szasz

“History is Philosophy teaching by example.”
– Thucydides

“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

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
– Vernon Law

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