Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

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

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

George Bernard Shaw

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

George Bernard Shaw

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

George Bernard Shaw

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Gena Showalter

As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain (kind of) and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard.

Gary Lineker

We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

Gary Larson

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.

Frederick William Robertson

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

Freeman Dyson

All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the kids. It's also hard on the teachers. And I think it's totally useless.

Freeman Dyson

I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy.

Franz Kafka

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

Erich Maria Remarque

The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language.

Erich Fromm

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Some teachers are better with adults and some aren't.

Teach only love, for that is what you are.

The show is about a teacher who is worried about first day of school.

Bernie Sanders

Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough to pay the salaries of 425,000 public school teachers. This level of inequality is neither moral or sustainable

Diane Sawyer

What did you have to teach him about prosecuting a case?

We teach them to read in kindergarten, which makes a difference.

We teach them to play with the idea that you can play forever.

Jim Cramer

I'm not just here to tell you about stocks. I'm here to teach you to think like Cramer!

Anne Francis

Each one wanted to be the one who teaches her about life.

Brandon Meriweather

Each one teach one. That's just how we do it at the U.

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.

Carly Fiorina

We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability.

Carly Fiorina

The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

C. Everett Koop

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

C. Everett Koop

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

Bunker Roy

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Burl Ives

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

Bryan Cranston

It's a familiar story now: a meek and depressed high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer cooks up a scheme to make and market a superior grade of methamphetamine to provide a nest egg for his family after he's gone. But over the course of five seasons Walter White goes from milquetoast to murderous in order to survive.

James Heckman

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.