Best school & teacher Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.”

Said School Hours Study Teacher Training Constant Pursuit Enjoyed Fixed Guidance

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.”

School Teacher Drama High School Theater

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.”

Made Important School Literature Interesting Class Environment Teacher High School Enjoyed Interaction English Literature

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.”

School Teacher Shoes Drunk Primaries Shops Bottles Throat Milk School Teachers Barbers Primary School Barber Shop

Author:Paul O'Grady

“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.”

Thinking Want Needs School Teacher Subjects Consumers Shops Goods

Author:Daniel Pennac

“Oh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.”

Needs Children Littles School Education Boys Teacher Need You I Need You

Author:Elton John

“I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.”

School Father Boys Teach Teacher Son Physics Sydney Everyman

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.”

Matter Government School Teacher Like You Locals Agents School Teachers

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.”

Wells Littles School Bits Teacher Goes On Little Bit High School Discouraged

Author:Tyler Posey

“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.”

Knows Years School Cities Company Teacher New York Victim Selling New York City Engineers Equipment Public School Jersey New Jersey School System Layoff Filtration

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”

Wells Age School Born Half Teacher Four Educated Admirable Thirteen Well Educated

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.”

School Community Environment Teacher Involvement Good Teacher

Author:David Selby

“I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.”

Years School Teacher High School Movie Sets School Years

Author:Devon Sawa

“There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher.”

Children Character Shows School Christian Culture Force Religious Perfect Rooms Education Moral Christianity Clear Teacher Argument Bases Commonwealth Degrading True Education

Author:Robert Dabney

“Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.”

“When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.”

Wells School Teacher Middle Hated Middle School

Author:Miles Teller

“I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.”

Thinking Ends School Chance Teacher Blood Mom Husband Ultimate Second Chance Sleeves Georgia School Teachers Gifts Of Life

Author:Niki Taylor

“My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.”

Years School Names Parent Teacher High School Sick Juniors Nicknames Teddy Franco Junior Year Junior Year Of High School

Author:James Franco

“I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.”

Art Reason School Gone Teacher High School Department Alabama Art Teacher

Author:Sela Ward

“I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.”

World School Teacher Teaching High School Tables Chemistry Epistemology Pedagogy Periodic Table Chemistry Teachers

Author:Isadore Singer

“I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.”

Way Feels Trying Mean Feelings Kids School Used Left Perfect Teacher High School Rain My Way Defeated Overwhelmed Homework Left Out Perfect Days Feeling Down Cool Kid Feeling Overwhelmed

Author:Kara Lindsay

“I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.”

School Teacher Math Math Teacher

Author:Jayma Mays

“When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.”

People School Used Laughing Teacher Nice Making People Laugh Really Nice Pranks

Author:Chrisette Michele

“I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.”

Said School Teacher Grades Blindness Grades In School Dyslexic

Author:Debbie Macomber

“I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.”

Said Home School Used Teacher Example Instruments Musical Neglect Senators Public School Charlie Bud Benign Elementary School Musical Instruments Music Teacher

Author:Max Roach

“An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?”

Feels School Teacher Students Theory Terrible

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”

“Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.”

Children Country Matter School Parent Goal Common Clear Teacher Students Standards Educational Backgrounds Realistic School Teachers Realistic Goals

Author:Roy Romer

“Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.”

“Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.”

Whole School Found Teacher Seeing Middle Training Whole Life Exposed Ballet Middle School

Author:Misty Copeland

“I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada. I was also acting in a wonderfully supportive theatre community in Edmonton. There's a lot of support for theatre there. So, I was having a great time, but I didn't consider acting as a serious career initially, because even the most successful actors that I know in Edmonton are not super successful. Acting over there is just not a success-oriented career.”

“Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.”

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.”

Art Two School Acting Teacher Teaching Meditating Art Teacher

Author:Forest Whitaker

“Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.”

Needs Giving Able School Asks Individual Strong Parent Decision Teacher Design Students Program Partnership Permission Bureaucracy Flexibility Public School Charter School Teachers

Author:Gary Larson

“My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.”

Looks School Teacher Son Genius Paint Painter Apples My Son

Author:Charles Mingus

“Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.”

Believe Humans Eye School I Believe Church Silence Wonder Teacher Seeing Standing Hills

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.”

People Thinking Years Firsts School Three Cases Teacher Stupid Lows Expectations Tests Three Years You Re Stupid Low Expectations I Was Stupid

Author:Robert Sternberg

“I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.”

Different Home School Teacher Grades Fifth Schooling One On One Fifth Grade

Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.”

School Guy Acting Teacher Genius Drama High School Musical Incredibles Lead In Freshman

Author:Casey Affleck

“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.”

May School Artist Turns Teacher Towns Painter Copies Honour Abandoned Imitation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.”

Knows Children Said Wanted School Parent Teacher Information Primaries Discussion Reports Primary School School Reports

Author:Carol J. Adams

“To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.”

Would Be School Deals Teacher Groups Teaching Students Disease Medicine Patient Currents Medical Primaries Broads Professors Pupils Professional Life Medical School Clinicians

Book:The educational essays

Source: The educational essays

“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.”

“My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.”

School Mother Father Teacher Grades School Teachers Grades In School Eighth Grade

Author:Gordon Bell

“Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.”

Heart School Love Is Existence Teacher Yoga Modest Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of the Soto or Rinzai schools.”

Ifs Should School Teacher Doctrine Interpretation Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.”

School Education Teacher Managers Obedience Grades Relevant Measurement Teaching Children Good Grades Bad Grades

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.”

Ifs Knows Said School Girl Courses Hours Acting Teacher Drama Degrees High School University Enjoyed Biology Honour Eleventh Hour

Author:Matt Frewer

“The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'”

Way Children Said Ideas School Lost President Interest Attitude Teacher Groups Example Offers Unions Dare Dues Protest New Ideas Representing Federation Teachers Unions

Author:Mitt Romney

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