Top 1200 Great Teachers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

I think great teachers, which coaches are, are the ones that you hear.

I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers.

We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.

History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.

Teachers' unions don't act in the interest of most teachers.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually run the school themselves. That's kind of the most radical way, but I think something that's more doable across the board is just creating career ladders for teachers that allow certain teachers after a certain number of years to inhabit new roles. Roles mentoring their peers, helping train novice teachers to be better at their jobs, roles writing the curriculum, leading on lesson planning.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.

I was fortunate to be at that school in an era in which encounters between students and teachers were encouraged; there were a number of teachers who lived on campus, and they'd regularly invite students over for dinner on the weekends. I hope it's still like that: being treated seriously by an adult you admire is a great gift. Children, like adults, want respect - but it's only when you're older that you realize how few people actually extend it.

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the bar, huge amount of progress. Let's continue that.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts.

One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.

Our teachers made such a difference - all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

Committed teachers know their students' needs better than anyone in the system. Traditionally, however, teachers have little control over the purchase of student materials.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is no alternative––to enable learning while traveling, or while in remote locations, or when one wishes to study a topic for which there is not easy access to teachers. Robot teachers will help make lifelong learning a practicality. They can make it possible to learn no matter where one is in the world, no matter the time of day. Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.

When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in during the non-school hours to support and do enrichment activities, social services, then those students will beat the odds, will beat poverty, will beat violence in the community, will beat sometimes dysfunctional families, and be productive citizens long term. They will go to college.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach. There are very few great conducting teachers, and most great conductors don't teach. Look at Valery Gergiev - what he does is not teachable. A lot of it is on-the-job training, what works and what doesn't work.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

Teachers have had a great effect on me as a child. I've always loved school and had a great appetite for learning. I cried when it was time to go back home and tried to jump from my mother's moving car to run back there.