Teacher Quotes And Sayings

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“Roger Collins wasn’t the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.”
– Francine Pascal

“I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.”
– Francis Ford Coppola

“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
– G. K. Chesterton quotes

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
– George Bernard Shaw quotes

“Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.”
– George Bernard Shaw quotes

“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

“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.”
– Gertrude Stein

“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.”
– Gilbert Highet

“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Ask yourself: ‘Do I feel the need to laminate?’ Then teaching is for you.”
– Gordon Korman

“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.”
– Gracie Allen

“My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.”
– Gus Van Sant

“My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the ‘Village Voice’ and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.”
– Gus Van Sant

“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.”
– Harry Callahan

“I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.”
– Haruki Murakami

“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”
– Heather Brewer

“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”
– Helen Keller

“The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.”
– Henry Adams

“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.”
– Henry B. Adams

“Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf between genius and the teaching profession. Anyone with a touch of genius seems to his teachers a freak from the very first. As far as teachers are concerned, they define young geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love at fifteen, can be found at sixteen hanging out in bars, read forbidden books, write scandalous essays, occasionally stare down a teacher in class, are marked in the attendance book as rebels, and are budding candidates for room-arrest. A schoolmaster will prefer to have a couple of dumbheads in his class than a single genius, and if you regard it objectively, he is of course right. His task is not to produce extravagant intellects but good Latinists, arithmeticians and sober decent folk. The question of who suffers more acutely at the other’s hands – the teacher at the boy’s, or vice versa – who is more of a tyrant, more of a tormentor, and who profanes parts of the other’s soul, student or teacher, is something you cannot examine without remembering your own youth in anger and shame. yet that’s not what concerns us here. We have the consolation that among true geniuses the wounds almost always heal. As their personalities develop, they create their art in spite of school. Once dead, and enveloped by the comfortable nimbus of remoteness, they are paraded by the schoolmasters before other generations of students as showpieces and noble examples. Thus the struggle between rule and spirit repeats itself year after year from school to school. The authorities go to infinite pains to nip the few profound or more valuable intellects in the bud. And time and again the ones who are detested by their teachers are frequently punished, the runaways and those expelled, are the ones who afterwards add to society’s treasure. But some – and who knows how many? – waste away quiet obstinacy and finally go under.”
– Hermann Hesse

“I ended up dropping out of high school. I’m a high school dropout, which I’m not proud to say, … I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, ‘You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?’ I had teachers who I could tell didn’t want to be there. And I just couldn’t get inspired by someone who didn’t want to be there”
– Hilary Swank

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
– Horace Mann

“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.”
– Howard Nemerov

“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
– Ignacio Estrada quotes

“You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”
– J.D. Salinger

“You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.”
– J.D. Salinger

“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
– Jack Welch

“I’ve managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years,” she announced with some small sense of achievement. “I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.”
– Jasper Fforde

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