Top 1200 Good Teachers Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.

If you want to be a good shot-blocker, you're going to be a good shot-blocker. It's simple. You can't teach it. You're either good at it, or you're not good at it. If you're good at it, then be really good at it.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.

I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

I told my mom I wanted to buy roses for my teachers so I'm pretty sure my son'll be that way too.

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.

When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

The teachers told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I was a bad kid. But I knew I could still hoop.

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

I taught myself until I was about 16. And then I studied classical guitar with some teachers.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Cruces is like my town, where I grew up, where my heart is... All the teachers and coaches and people who have really influenced my life are from there.

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is it good or bad for the Democrats? Is it good or bad for the Republicans? Is it good or bad for Jews, or good or bad for blacks, or is it good or bad for women? Is it good or bad for men? Is it good or bad for gays? That's the way people think about issues today. There is very little discussion of enduring principles.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy?it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

We definitely have to take care of our teachers more. Raise the pay. Give them the tools they need.

Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides.

A really large number of teachers contact us offline testifying how valuable iPads are for their students.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan served this country well, he did not celebrate his birthday, he celebrated it for teachers.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.

I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

I think that education is something - it takes place in the classroom. It's all up to that teacher. We should be respecting and rewarding teachers.

We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Kerala is doing well because here the kids are encouraged to compete in sports, both by parents and teachers in schools.

No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.

I didn't do very well at school - teachers picked on me, I'm sure of it - and I'd stay out all hours of the night with my mates.

There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.