Teachers Quotes

“Students need to be continually exposed to content that is slightly more advanced than their comprehension. This is how minds grow - by having to reach beyond present capability. This is how everything grows - by having to reach beyond.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Teachers have to model the behaviors they expect from students. If you expect your students to be respectful, you need to be the first one to be seen showing respect to every student and every other teacher. If you expect your students to be curious learners, then you yourself should be a curious learner who is willing to learn from your students sometimes. Do not ask of your students any behavior which you are not willing and able to model.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“I learned to cook by helping my mother in the kitchen. I assisted her with the canning, and she began assigning me some other tasks like making salad dressing or kneading dough for bread. My first attempt at preparing an entire dinner¾the menu included pork chops Hawaiian, which called for the pork to be marinated in papaya nectar, ginger, cumin, and other spices before being grilled with onions and pineapple cubes¾required an extensive array of exotic ingredients. When he saw my grocery list, my father commented, “I hope she marries a rich man.”
― Mallory M. O'Connor, The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art

“A school that doesn’t cultivate creativity is a waste of the presence of youth, and an example of misallocated capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Careers are not defined by age or employment status. Careers are defined by consistent value creation. So if you're 12 years old and you consistently create engineering value, you are an engineer.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“People would look at teachers differently if they had to wear the uniform for their second job when on the clock”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“For the rest of the school year, the teachers treated me different and gave me better grades even though I didn't get any smarter.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“A leader is not born, teachers make one.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Slate

“Students recognise their teachers. Teachers recognise their students.”
― Donna Goddard, Pittown: A Spiritual Fiction Series

“Not everything that matters can be quantified. What is tested may ultimately be less important than what is untested, such as a student's ability to seek alternative explanations, to raise questions, to pursue knowledge on his own, and to think differently. If we do not treasure our individualists, we will lose the spirit of innovation, inquiry, imagination, and dissent that has contributed powerfully to the success of our society in many different fields of endeavor.”
― Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

“Nineteen police officers watched over two teachers and nineteen young children bleeding to death.”
― Steven Magee

“Who were we to tell Roz to stick with teaching - that she was already living her best life?

But it was dismal to imagine the Brownswood kids going to school and not being taught by Mrs. Gill anymore. Mrs. Gill, who sent Em home every week with essays covered in glowing comments, which in turn made Em glow. Mrs. Gill, who'd bullied and enlightened me, restored my confidence and made me feel that anything was possible. Teachers like her and Sarah Boleyn were precious, should be feted and put in magazines like Hollywood stars. Maybe then they wouldn't want to do other things.”
― Beth Morrey, Delphine Jones Takes a Chance

“Society destroys the very roots of trust. Society does not allow you to trust yourself. It teaches you all other kinds of trust: trust in the parents, trust in the teachers, trust in
the church, trust in God, but the basic trust in yourself is destroyed. The man who trusts himself is dangerous to society, because a society depends on slavery. A man who trusts himself is an independent man. Freedom will
be his life. His love will have a truth to it. The society needs dependent people, who do not trust themselves. ”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Call of the Heart 

“The best teachers I’ve met are the ones who use life experiences and explorative practices in order to expand minds. Without free-thinking, unconventional educators, I would never have been able to succeed.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Homeschooling on a Budget

“Don't forget your teachers who showed you kindness by teaching you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Before the war, they were happy, he said,
quoting our textbook. (This was senior-year

history class.) The slaves were clothed, fed,
and better off under a master's care.

I watched the words blur on the page. No one
raised a hand, disagreed. Not even me.”
― Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected

“A Teacher is someone who

1. makes you eager to KNOW more

2. provokes you to raise QUESTIONS

3. teaches you the WAY of learning

4. guides to the path of HONESTY

5. tells you the difference b/t Wealth and Money

6. motivates you to share KNOWLEDGE

7. encourages you to HELP others

A teacher awares you with problems, effects, solutions of contamporary cicumstances on social, political and financial issues.”
― Sandy Raman

“Fantastic thanks to my teachers who taught me.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Am very thankful to my teachers who taught me.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“No word ”
― Atlas Gondal

“No word can express the effort, dedication and sacrifices a teacher put into teaching. Happy teachers day Sir with immense respect and gratitude!”
― Atlas Gondal

“No word can express the effort, dedication and sacrifices a teacher put into teaching. Happy teachers day to all teachers with immense respect and gratitude!”
― Atlas Gondal

“Any teacher can work to build strong relationships with parents and students without recruiting them for political battles. It all starts with recognizing and respecting the responsibility that all educators have to families.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“Teachers mattered. They could make you feel like you belonged in school, like you could learn, like you could succeed in life—or they could make you feel like you were wasting your time.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Changing teachers to students as experts in a game and starting a new game that they doen't have experience with.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Government of baboons invests in police 'n defense contracts, while a truly civilized government invests in education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Society that empowers teachers empowers peace. Society that empowers police empowers malice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Many parents, K-12 teachers, professors, and university administrators have been unknowingly teaching a generation of students to engage in the mental habits commonly seen in people who suffer from anxiety and depression... students were beginning to react to words, books, and visiting speakers with fear and anger because they had been taught to exaggerate danger, use dichotomous thinking, amplify their first emotional responses, and engage in a number of cognitive distortions. Such thought patterns directly harmed student' mental health and interfered with their intellectual development-- and sometimes the development of those around them.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

“In a healthy education, two sides should have the right teachers and students if the right of one of them is marginalized, an unhealthy education will come out of it.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“If you want really to do your best in
an examination, fling away the book the day before, say to yourself, ‘I won’t
waste another minute on this miserable thing, and I don’t care an iota whether I
succeed or not.’ Say this sincerely, and feel it, and go out and play, or go to bed
and sleep, and I am sure the results next day will encourage you to use the
method permanently.”
― William James, On Some Of Life's Ideals: On A Certain Blindness In Human Beings; What Makes A Life Significant