Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Daniel Tosh

I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.

Dana Spiotta

I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

Dallas Willard

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Curtis White

Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.

Dave Eggers

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Dave Eggers

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

David Levithan

I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

David Levithan

teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.

Dalai Lama

The enemy is a very good teacher.

Diogenes

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Diogenes

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

Dick Gephardt

I grew up in the '50s and '60s when Jack Kennedy was president. We would watch him on television. And our teachers always talked about the good things public servants could do. I thought maybe that's something I should do. So when I got out of law school, my wife, Jane, and I became precinct captains.

Deval Patrick

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

Dermot Healy

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

Debbie Reynolds

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

Debbie Macomber

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.

Daymond John

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

Dean Norris

When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.

Andie MacDowell

When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

Amartya Sen

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

Amartya Sen

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

Anna Netrebko

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. I said, No, I want to sing all the other stuff. If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

Anna Quindlen

My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.

Anna Quindlen

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

Cillian Murphy

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

Alfred Doblin

I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.

Alfred de Musset

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Alfie Kohn

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

Alfie Kohn

Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.

Alfie Kohn

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

Alfie Kohn

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

Alfred Adler

Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.