Famous Quotes & Sayings

Solomon Ortiz

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Solomon Ortiz

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.

Solomon Ortiz

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

Solomon Ortiz

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

Taylor Schilling

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

Taylor Mali

Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have real work to do and a lot of it, so they don't have a whole lot of free time on their hands.

Taylor Mali

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

Taylor Mali

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

Taylor Mali

Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

Taylor Mali

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

Taylor Mali

By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.

Taylor Mali

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

Taylor Mali

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

Stanley Kubrick

Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating.

Stanley Kubrick

In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.

Soren Kierkegaard

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

Soren Kierkegaard

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Soren Kierkegaard

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Marcus Aurelius

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

Thomas a Kempis

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

Thomas A. Edison

A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Sidney Hook

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Sidney Hook

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Sharon Lawrence

You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what it means to be supported by your knowledge - not by some team that is there to create confidence; it is there within you. That takes time. That takes teachers. That takes taking risks.

Sharon Salzberg

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Natalie Goldberg

In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

Natalie Goldberg

That daydreaming seemed important at the time, but when I asked my teacher Katagiri Roshi about it, he said, "Oh, it's just laziness. Get to work." But as for discipline, I don't even use that word. I think more about passion or love. What I've really learned is the way the mind moves, and how the mind works. Rather than discipline, I know how to seduce my mind.

Natalie Goldberg

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

Tawni O'Dell

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

Tara Brach

To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing. If we can help the next generation become more self-aware, empathetic and emotionally resilient, they will bring their wisdom to healing the earth and creating a more peaceful world.

Talib Kweli

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.