Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.
Sylvia Plath
Related Brighton goes through English teachers like Hogwarts devours Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers. SHANNON LEE ALEXANDER Some teachers have asked us -- not through the school board or anything -- to come in and help. CURTIS SLIWA They (the symphony) work with the teachers to come up with the concerts, to find out what the music ... HEIDI DALLIN In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there w... ESTELLE MORRIS They don't want to lay off teachers, we don't want to lay off teachers, and we're trying to cut our ... ELMER GABBARD We once considered opening a teachers' store. But our personal faith experiences brought us to this. JO PANTER That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu... MARIA CALLAS The difference between good teachers and great teachers is that great teachers have mastered the art... JEFF WAHL I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through prop... MICHAEL BENNET They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young wh... EMILE CAPOUYA Early registration not only provides smooth transition into the schools but helps us to find highly ... BARBARA BATTS I think it is important for us as teachers to offer a huge spread of courses from Plato, the deadest... WILLIAM SCOTT School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and tea... RICHARD BACH One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen PHILIP WYLIE I think, generally, it's great news for us as a school system. All of the credit goes to our classro... CLAYTON WILCOX There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac... MATTHEW DICKS The teachers, principal, counselors - they made it their business to teach us what we would need to ... DERRICK JACKSON They're not letting us see all the information. If everything is in that bad of shape, then why give... DIANE SNURE Most of our teachers were white, and the songs that they taught us were white, so when we first star... CLARENCE FOUNTAIN I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement. GINA RAIMONDO Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all... VICTORIA KAHLER My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies. HUGO CHAVEZ Teachers have the utmost respect for the law and judiciary. However, teachers voted 90.5 per cent to... JINNY SIMS I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers. MICHAEL LEUNIG It's practical common-sense stuff that's making us successful. Our teachers don't have to spend half... DR. HUEY MILLS These higher than state average settlements are an attempt to catch us up with those surrounding dis... DUANE VAN GORP Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE... SEBASTIAN COE That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu... MARIA CALLAS If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is... KOREN ZAILCKAS What better way than to bring teachers to Japan, give them experiences interacting with students and... JAN JENSEN If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our jo... BARBARA COLOROSE In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ... LEE IACOCCA Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I... NEAL SHUSTERMAN According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everythin... CHUCK PALAHNIUK When teachers get together they can trade ideas, blow off steam and generally get better connected w... DEAN TURNER We really have some excellent teachers. KATHRYNE BOROUGHS The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything ... JOSEPH BRUCHAC Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cr... JULIA GLASS Change starts within each and every one of us. We are teachers of love. AVINA CELESTE The entire school is mailing to each other. Teachers to students, students to teachers, students to ... ANGI BRUNNEY The teachers will work out how to help the individuals with problems. It gets the teachers together ... BOB FREEHAN It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn. JOHN BRADSHAW It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn. JOHN BRADSHAW We have so many things that we must do (in school) that are mandated by the federal government. We n... DANITA RICKARD Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to ma... DAVID E. KELLEY I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and... ELLEN OCHOA Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and infl... MIKE GALLAGHER It's a critical problem. One of the issues we're really going to have to deal with is, where do we f... BILL BUSH As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and ... RACHEL HURD-WOOD If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental. CAMILA ALVES The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre thi... BERTRAND RUSSELL Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student ne... GARY LARSON Once you start asking public school teachers to instruct on matters of religion in science classes, ... DAN GELBER Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of p... ANDY ROONEY LIFE and TIME are the world's best teachers. LIFE teaches us to make good use of TIME and TIME ... AAMIR SARFRAZ (AAMIR RAJPUT KHAN) The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school... DAVID MINSKER We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded r... WALKER STAPLETON To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. SASHA AZEVEDO Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say. CHINESE PROVERBS If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. IGNACIO ESTRADA The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The gre... WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal cou... DR. WILLIAM MENNINGER The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not forma... ELLIOT EISNER On a Monday, they have church and the teachers speak to us and tell us that Christianity is not a jo... ELTON WILLIAMS Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manuf... SIMONE WEIL I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they ... MARSHA BLACKBURN There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball. A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and ... A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI To know how to suggest is the art of teaching HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The AIMS teachers have experience with a middle-school schedule, and we're thankful for their help. KATHRYN MOSER We get teachers who either live here or they want to stay in this area. There is no way we're going ... MICHAEL GREEN What the teachers understand, students never understand and in the paper what we want them to unders... HIMMILICIOUS It's a new school, and I know some of the teachers, so I feel comfortable with the change. KIMBERLY SMITH He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, bec... CHARLES COLES Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. TEMPLE GRANDIN It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn. JOHN BRADSHAW In general, I tend to favor teachers over school boards in conflicts. Not that teachers are always r... JON CARROLL In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have ... GAYLORD NELSON We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and ... AZIM PREMJI Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves LEONARD ROY FRANK What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising... MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an ... PETER F. DRUCKER The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician. KATE BETTS When I was a young person, it was easy to argue that teachers are not well paid. I don't think the p... HENRY SCHEIER I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers. ADAM GARCIA They are teachers who train teachers. CINDY SULHAM The FAME teachers are by far the most talented individuals that I have ever worked with. Their enthu... BRIGITTE DONLON When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and histo... ADAM HAMILTON Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and... MONICA JOHNSON For some of the newer teachers, the transition is natural. But ... some of the other teachers, who m... ANDY NELSON The teachers and staff work on a lot of collaboration to help students be successful. Without the mi... JOHN BARRY The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human ... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM We're getting more and more [high school teachers] asking about that all the time. VIRGINIA BOWERMAN My number one priority is to try to get the summer school staffed with the best possible teachers. FRED BUTCHER We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provid... ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
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