Teachers Quotes

“The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.”
― Donna Quesada, Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers

“Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.”
― Victoria Kahler, Their Friend Scarlet

“True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion.”
― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

“When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.”
― Ace Antonio Hall

“You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.”
― J.D. Salinger

“One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves.”
― Anne Hill, The Baby and the Bathwater

“I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

“Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a fine big room under the eaves of the main building, and a wretched kennel of a bedroom, and rights in a bathroom used by two or three other resident masters. I taught all day, but my wooden leg mercifully spared me from the nuisance of having to supervise sports after school. There were exercises to mark every night, but I soon gained a professional attitude towards these woeful explorations of the caves of ignorance and did not let them depress me. I liked the company of most of my colleagues, who were about equally divided among good men who were good teachers, awful men who were awful teachers, and the grotesques and misfits who drift into teaching and are so often the most educative influences a boy meets in school. If a boy can't have a good teacher, give him a psychological cripple or an exotic failure to cope with; don't just give him a bad, dull teacher. This is where the private schools score over state-run schools; they can accommodate a few cultured madmen on the staff without having to offer explanations.”
― Robertson Davies, Fifth Business

“Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...”
― Meg Wolitzer

“But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.”
― Meg Wolitzer

“...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then they died away as the teacher was absorbed like everyone else...before you knew it, the fresh ones seemed to have been teaching there forever too, or else they didn't last very long, and were gone before you'd gotten to know them.”
― Meg Wolitzer

“She'll soon forget."
"Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!”
― Hilary McKay, Saffy's Angel

“I now know that I was in the presence of the only angels we are ever likely to make the acquaintance of: teachers blessed with the love of small people who are trying to find their place in the world.”
― Ted Kooser, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps

“Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing I wanted was to be like my dad. It took becoming a man to realize how lucky I’d been. It took a few hard knocks in life to make me realize the only thing my dad had ever wanted or worked for was to give me a chance at being better than him.”
― Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season

“It is a truism that no profession welcomes the end of the work week with more anticipation than teachers.”
― Daniel Silva, The New Girl

“I recall once seeing a commentary advertised as having been written in prison without recourse to other commentaries and by reliance on the Holy Spirit alone. I doubt whether those last two phrases are complementary. If God has set teachers in the church (1 Cor. 12:28; Eph. 4:11) and many have written books, can good come out of ignoring them, let along parading that ignorance as glorifying God? God's work is never a one-man show. The one who represents the visible part of the iceberg must ever ackowledge his or her debt to others. I like to remember that the First Epistle to the Corinthians was from Paul and Sosthenes (1 Cor. 1:1) and that the Epistle to the Colossians was from Paul and Timothy.”
― Leslie Allen, 1, 2 Chronicles

“Our troubles begin the moment our teachers believe they know it all, and our learners think they are not teachable.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Let's go to the Next Level

“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians - because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Business planning empowers administrators to make informed decisions, allocate resources efficiently, and drive continuous improvement in school performance.”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“Regular review and updates of a school’s business plan enables administrators to stay agile and responsive to evolving educational needs and priorities.”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“From enrolment projections to curriculum development, a comprehensive business plan covers all aspects crucial to the school's growth and effectiveness.”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“The world needs teachers to advance the next generation – if you read your pre-written notes ten times in the classroom, you should stay home!”
“আগামী প্রজন্মকে এগিয়ে নেওয়ার জন্য বিশ্বের শিক্ষক প্রয়োজন – আপনি যদি শ্রেণীকক্ষে আপনার পূর্ব লিখিত নোট দশবার পড়ান তবে আপনার বাড়িতে থাকা উচিত!”
― Mozammel Khan

“A great teacher makes being in her class more wonderful than being in the coolest clique.”
― Michael G. Thompson, Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children

“A great teacher gives you the freedom to do what is right and the intervention to keep you from doing what is wrong.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“The trouble with teachers is that they really like to point out what's wrong with things. I mean, it's their job so I get that it's useful and all, but I don't think I want that kind of rubbish energy around me all the time, you know?”
― Yeoh Jo-Ann, Deplorable Conversations with Cats and Other Distractions