Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodney Dangerfield

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

Rodney Dangerfield

My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?

Robertson Davies

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.

Robert Sternberg

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.

Robert Sternberg

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

Robert Sternberg

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

William Hung

I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.

Will Smith

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

Warren E. Burger

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

Warren Beatty

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Warren Buffett

I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with thank-you notes from parents, but rewards those who can detect the mispricing of securities with sums reaching into the billions. In short, fate’s distribution of long straws is wildly capricious.

Warren Buffett

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

Warren Buffett

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Vladimir Lenin

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Wayne Dyer

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

Walter Bagehot

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

Virginia Woolf

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

William Bennett

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

Wendy Whelan

We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.

Wentworth Miller

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

Werner Erhard

What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.

Wallace Stegner

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

Wallace Stegner

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

Wallace Stegner

Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.

Wallace Stegner

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Samuel Smiles

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Samuel Smiles

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.

Samuel Dash

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Samuel Butler

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Samuel Beckett

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Sally Schneider

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

Salvador Dali

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

Salman Rushdie

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.