T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.”
“Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.”
“Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.”
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”
“Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.”
“Teachers are new endangered species in India”
“Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.”
Source: Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World
“teachers are not tellers of information who "give it" to students but are coaches and facilitators who arrange conditions (personal, social, and cognitive) so that students can "get it" for themselves.”
“Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.”
“Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.”
“Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.”
“Teachers are responsible for showing what an inclusive, caring community looks like, expressing confidence in the goal, and articulating how to make it work.”
Source: The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms
“Teachers are role models who don’t just teach lessons, they live them, setting the example that shapes tomorrow.”
Source: STOMPI made SIMPLE for English Speaking Kids: An Easy Guide to Afrikaans Word Order and Sentence Building.
“Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.”
“Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939
“Teachers are the most important component of a free society. And one of the most embattled. They are treated like the grease in a machinery grinding to nowhere instead of enlightened beacons of knowledge. Teachers are unappreciated, underpaid, and constantly criticized.”
Source: Teaching Las Vegas
“Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.”
“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.”
“Teachers are the original hoarders; we've even been known to collect useless information...”
“Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.”
“Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.”
“Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.”
“Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.”
“Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.”
Source: Conversations with Denise Levertov
“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”
Source: The University and the Public Interest
“Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.”
“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”
“Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.”
“Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.”
“Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.”
“Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours.”
Source: The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
“Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?”
Source: House Rules: A Novel
“Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.”
“Teachers do not need gifts
They need appreciation
Warm Words of love
Are their motivation
They are heroes
Who never give up on you
They inspire and guide you
Their dedication is true”
“Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.”
“Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.”
“Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.”
“Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf between genius and the teaching profession. Anyone with a touch of genius seems to his teachers a freak from the very first. As far as teachers are concerned, they define young geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love at fifteen, can be found at sixteen hanging out in bars, read forbidden books, write scandalous essays, occasionally stare down a teacher in class, are marked in the attendance book as rebels, and are budding candidates for room-arrest. A schoolmaster will prefer to have a couple of dumbheads in his class than a single genius, and if you regard it objectively, he is of course right. His task is not to produce extravagant intellects but good Latinists, arithmeticians and sober decent folk. The question of who suffers more acutely at the other's hands - the teacher at the boy's, or vice versa - who is more of a tyrant, more of a tormentor, and who profanes parts of the other's soul, student or teacher, is something you cannot examine without remembering your own youth in anger and shame. yet that's not what concerns us here. We have the consolation that among true geniuses the wounds almost always heal. As their personalities develop, they create their art in spite of school. Once dead, and enveloped by the comfortable nimbus of remoteness, they are paraded by the schoolmasters before other generations of students as showpieces and noble examples. Thus the struggle between rule and spirit repeats itself year after year from school to school. The authorities go to infinite pains to nip the few profound or more valuable intellects in the bud. And time and again the ones who are detested by their teachers are frequently punished, the runaways and those expelled, are the ones who afterwards add to society's treasure. But some - and who knows how many? - waste away quiet obstinacy and finally go under.”
Source: Beneath the Wheel
“Teachers give so much to the future and to youth. So, when you see somebody make that type of sacrifice towards work - just parents in general, what they got to give to their kids is a lot - I'm inspired, man, to give and help those who didn't or don't have opportunities. And even those that may have some opportunities, [to] help them achieve their dreams.”
“Teachers had told her she was intelligent. Friends had said so too, often slightly accusatory as if being intelligent had made her too different to be quite comfortable with.”
Source: The Ghost by the Billabong
“Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.”
“Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.”
“Teachers have been heroes to me, as well as artists and writers, and I'm honored to be among their ranks. There is always a lot of grousing about the academy. I suppose it comes from our all-American anti-authoritarianism.”
“Teachers have had a great effect on me as a child. I've always loved school and had a great appetite for learning. I cried when it was time to go back home and tried to jump from my mother's moving car to run back there.”
“Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.”
Source: Letters to a Friend
“Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.”
“Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.”
“Teachers! If the majority of your students are failing, then you are not adaptive-teaching. Adapt to global, auditory, tactile & visual learners.”
Source: Oware Mosaic
“Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.”