“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.”
A good teacher changes lives, often without realizing it until years later. These quotes honor educators — their patience, dedication, creativity, and the underappreciated truth that teaching is one of the most demanding and important professions there is.
“I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.”
“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.”
“I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.”
“The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.”
“I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.”
“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.”
“I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.”
“There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.”
“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
“I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.”
“We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.”
“My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.”
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.”
“I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.”
“I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.”
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”