Teacher Quotes And Sayings

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“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.”"
– Maria Montessori

“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”
– Maria Montessori

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
– Mark van Doren quotes

“Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.”
– Marva Collins quotes

“There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teach school”
– Matthew Dicks

“Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star…”
– Meg Wolitzer

“But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.”
– Meg Wolitzer

“New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then they died away as the teacher was absorbed like everyone else…before you knew it, the fresh ones seemed to have been teaching there forever too, or else they didn’t last very long, and were gone before you’d gotten to know them.”
– Meg Wolitzer

“Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. ”
– Michael Gruber

“Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. “Maybe she done changed,” he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet.
– Mildred D. Taylor

“Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.”
– Morihei Ueshiba

“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

“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.’ – Savannah”
– Nicholas Sparks

“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it”
– Nicholas Sparks

“In my ten years of teaching I’ve noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize that this is because we talk for a living, and we feel safe speaking our feelings aloud. Or it could be that most of us, especially the high school teacher variety, are just weird as shit.”
– P.C. Cast

“The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.”
– Pat Conroy

“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
– Pat Conroy

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
– Patricia Neal quotes

“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

“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

“I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.”
– Paul Wellstone

“The educator has the duty of not being neutral.”
– Paulo Freire

“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 F. Drucker quotes

“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 quotes

“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students”
– Richard Allington

“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

“Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a fine big room under the eaves of the main building, and a wretched kennel of a bedroom, and rights in a bathroom used by two or three other resident masters. I taught all day, but my wooden leg mercifully spared me from the nuisance of having to supervise sports after school. There were exercises to mark every night, but I soon gained a professional attitude towards these woeful explorations of the caves of ignorance and did not let them depress me. I liked the company of most of my colleagues, who were about equally divided among good men who were good teachers, awful men who were awful teachers, and the grotesques and misfits who drift into teaching and are so often the most educative influences a boy meets in school. If a boy can’t have a good teacher, give him a psychological cripple or an exotic failure to cope with; don’t just give him a bad, dull teacher. This is where the private schools score over state-run schools; they can accommodate a few cultured madmen on the staff without having to offer explanations.”
– Robertson Davies

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