An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Mentors won’t make you rich. Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take...

Students want female teachers to be warm and nurturing. When they aren’t, they get marked down across the board for being ‘bitches.” What’s a bitch? A woman who acts like a confident guy. Women are...

Children are teachers of love.

When asked what kind of grad student Lynn Marulis takes: ‘I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their...

The teacher you need is the person you’re living with.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker’s already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

I’m glad they’ve been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle schools.

Good teachers are good mentors.

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.

Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks had watered theirs down to keep their heads lucid), and, last...

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

I think it’s unfortunate for teachers feeling that way, that they don’t want to be singled out.

Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon...

Mrs. Hanks taught that everybody’s bodies were exactly the same. She was ignorant and didn’t think much about things, but she was teaching her students to be ignorant too. She was teaching them the wrong...

Some of us Teachers who consider ourselves to be smarter than our students will realise how worthless we are if we ever enter a classroom and find it devoid of students. Without students we are...

I don’t like it when Christianity and western cultures are used as propaganda to sway impoverished Muslims into becoming self-detonating radicals.

Schoolmastering kept me busy by day and part of each night. I was an assistant housemaster, with a fine big room under the eaves of the main building, and a wretched kennel of a bedroom,...

I always knew the teachers were out to get me.

Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf...

I’m not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life…

The expression ‘Those who can’t do, teach’ is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you’ll see that teachers aren’t particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the...

No. 1 is dealing with their teachers; they feel like say a teacher is wrong – no one wants to believe them or that the teacher is always right. We teach them that the teacher...

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.

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

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to...

There are two types of teachers. The ones who teach you to use the text to find answers, and the ones who teach you to use the text to find another whole world of answers.

Those who can do, those who can’t teach.

One of God’s high callings for His people is that they be teachers of good things.

Great teachers are great mentors.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star…

I’m sure the driver was a great guy and all he wanted was to drive me to my hotel—but he was a complete stranger to me and the truth is that being vigilant isn’t a...

At it’s highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student’s mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its...

Did one learn or was one shaped?

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind...

We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less… Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

Teachers said they were able to open up whole new discussions just by doing this project.

With her it’s as if a text was written so that we can identify the characters, the narrator, the setting, the plot, the time of the story, and so on. I don’t think it has...

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

Service members will only stay on active duty if they can provide for their families—and DOD schools provide a world-class education that has proven time and again to be an incentive for sailors, soldiers, airmen...

The world gives us PLENTY of opportunities to strengthen our patience. While this truth can definitely be challenging, this is a good thing. Patience is a key that unlocks the door to a more fulfilling...

The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you’re smarter than they are. You’re not even old enough to drive and you already know that...

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.

Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.

Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see.

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others–and less trouble.