- Nov 07, 2020
Teacher Quotes
On teaching, mentorship, and lasting impact.
Alongside a personal memory of teaching mythology in college, several quotes cite research on how a single effective teacher changes a student's odds of finishing school. For lighter material, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in special ed, but I felt like I was a caged bird. I felt like I could do better. I made sure I mastered my special ed lessons. I made sure I listened to my teacher. I made sure I did my homework, but I had to do a little extra.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this awesome tennis teacher when I was 12 who was Icelandic. He looked like a Viking: long hair, and he was built like a rock and spoke with this accent.
- Nov 07, 2020
School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.
- Communication Skills
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
- Nov 07, 2020
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020