Top 166 Educator Quotes & Sayings

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

I see myself as an educator.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

I don't consider myself an educator.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

For me, 'educator' is the highest title that exists.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

I've dedicated my entire career as an educator, principal, administrator and now as state superintendent toward solving problems, not picking fights.

I am an educator who thinks globally.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

I am an educator.

I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to cherish and which ones to avoid; and how best to relate to other human beings. We differ in how conscious we are of these questions; how reflective we are about our own stances; whether we are aware of how these human virtues are threatened by critiques (philosophical, cultural) and by technologies (chiefly the digital media). A good educator should help us all to navigate our way in this tangled web of virtues.

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.

Sense of community was really fostered by Larry Laurenzano, who was a great educator.

I'm a former educator, a veteran, and I have a strong energy and asset background.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.

As an elected official, an advocate for children, and an educator, Glenn Poshard has always fought for what's right.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible, But when I swing my swords they all choppable, I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, Child educator, plus head amputator.

There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.

An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.

It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.

The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.

I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Once an educator, always an educator!

I call myself an educator.

The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator.

Travel's the great educator, especially for the girls. You can't put a value on it.

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.