Quotes by Teachers More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be passionate about literature and writing, and to attempt to translate that passion to their own students. They are rookie teachers, most likely to be laid off and not rehired, even though they are passionate. Susan Straight teachers passion community school Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury. Sylvia Plath teachers biology art school Great teachers transcend ideology. Suzanne Fields transcend teachers great ideology There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship. Sugata Mitra teachers will good world Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers. Sugata Mitra teachers big information age In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them! Stormzy teachers me music school I was a disruptive student. I hated my teachers, especially my Spanish teacher. When I went to see the musical 'Matilda,' the horrible Miss Trunchbull brought back all sorts of horrible memories. I'd go into Spanish class, put on headphones, and sing at the top of my lungs until they threw me out. Steve Kazee teachers me teacher memories For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire. Stella Young teachers real inspire people I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me. Sophie Turner teachers down me difficult I used to be really into Kundalini yoga, and all the teachers show up, and they always wear white because they say it expands their aura by several feet, so I thought, 'If it works for them...' Sophie Hawley-Weld teachers thought white feet I used to be very shy. I hated going to a new classroom and having to make new friends, meet new teachers, and adjust to a new environment. Son Ye-jin teachers new new-friends friends I try to give a voice to teens, who might be afraid to speak up about difficult issues, and a platform for parents and teachers to have frank, meaningful discussions with those young people. Sharon Draper teachers parents speak people I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer. Sharon Creech teachers loved think me I travelled round the world giving demonstrations of my talents. In every country, I performed for students, professors, teachers, bankers, accountants, and even laymen who knew very little, or nothing at all, about mathematics. Shakuntala Devi teachers nothing mathematics world I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent. Scottie Thompson teachers think feet world Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more. Sarah Churchwell teachers need more expensive Teaching is a respectful job. Teachers lay the foundation for society. Sangram Singh teachers job foundation society How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice! Robert Mundell teachers good education advice I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention. Roderick MacKinnon teachers me pay-attention attention I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing. Ryan Eggold teachers think play teacher «1234567891011»