I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I’ll probably be able to attend only half the classes, … I’m scared that they’re going to drop me. In the fall of 2002...

She’ll soon forget.””Caddy,” said Saffron impatiently, “she is headmistress of the private school! She’s probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!

If you don’t read, I don’t know how to communicate with you…I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice

Several teachers complained about it.

The only thing I knew for sure is I hadn’t slept in ten years. Not really. I’d been fighting my own monster since nine months after 9/11. I had regrets. I had pain that I...

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

Even where there are no schools, there are teachers.

I think everyone wants salaries to increase. Salaries are going to need to increase if we want to attract teachers.

No more can this Angel teach her,Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake …

Roger Collins wasn’t the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.

Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you...

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

If I wouldn’t have spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher, I’d know how to punctuate. Good thing I normally write poetry.

Subs are often hired as regular teachers here. Sometimes, it does leave us searching for additional subs.

Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!

Overall, I think the teachers really enjoyed knowing there is a resource out there.

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

I don’t like being with grown-up people. I’ve known that a long time. I don’t like it because I don’t know how to get on with them.

No one can give you the answer because there is no answer.

The best teachers become the best teachers by being their own best students.

For the first time in a decade I felt a voice rising from deep inside my soul. It cried out ‘what will you be today?’ and I heard ‘relentless’ booming from the rafters inside an...

We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you’re making up all the time were terrible lies because they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the...

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.{His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle}

I ended up dropping out of high school. I’m a high school dropout, which I’m not proud to say, … I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me....

You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew...

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

It feels like last week, but in fact we’re now closing in on five thousand days at war. I always picture Sami as a nine-year-old soccer stud … and yet there are soldiers in Afghanistan...

We teachers break our bodies to give you a shirt that you will wear in the future, to conferences, to presidential speeches, to autograph signings. That is up to you and if you can do...

You’ll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven’s or Bach’s music...

Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he was now quitting school. It was the best day of her life, she...

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it’s to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who...

To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves.

[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life–the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library.To the teachers and librarians...

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

It’s going to go a long way to recognizing the outstanding work done by veteran teachers.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard...

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage–

There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teach school

Financially it was putting a great strain on the resources of the center itself, supporting teachers in other centers.

The first thing we need to do is educate our prospective teachers much better.

Don’t ever get to the point where you can’t be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Ultimately, classroom teachers are the targets of this anger, as they are the public face of the education system. As a group, teachers work very hard with limited resources. They are called upon to equalize...