Teacher Quotes - Page 70

We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to work with people, that you're able to support yourself and live out a great life being a teacher.

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

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

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

We are all special cases.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back then and I applied with barely any hope of getting accepted to any of the companies. However, I got accepted! Although my path was already set to become a piano instructor, I chose the path of videogames instead. My parents cried, my friends were worried and my teacher was stunned (we're talking about way back when game music wasn't as popular as it is these days).

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

The most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic. They invest their students in working harder than they ever have to reach that vision, maximise their classroom time in a goal-oriented manner through purposeful planning and effective execution, reflect constantly on their progress to improve their performance over time, and do whatever it takes to overcome the many challenges they face.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

Do you have a passion for what you do and do you love what you do? If you don't, then it can be drudgery, it can be hard, it can be work. But when you find something that you enjoy a lot, then you're more willing to sacrifice a lot of things in order to be successful as a teacher.

We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing. If we can help the next generation become more self-aware, empathetic and emotionally resilient, they will bring their wisdom to healing the earth and creating a more peaceful world.