Teachers Quotes

Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons.

Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!

The best teachers are the ones who give you a hard time, they may not intend it, but you can intend to learn!!!

The argument could be made that the word hero is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.

We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom

A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own.

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness. He’d made a deal with the war and traded his humanity for a ticket home.

Do me a favour and go out and perform one of the activities I hear the youth enjoy this Friday, like defacing public property.

First he wrought and afterwards he taught.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11, 000 higher than 1997.

I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.