Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'Rourke

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.
Kenny Guinn

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
Maggie Gallagher

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
Christopher Bond

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
Eric Allin Cornell

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney

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

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
Taylor Dayne

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
C. L. R. James

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
Warren Beatty

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
Moon Unit Zappa

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
Meg Cabot

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
Martin Lewis Perl

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
Joseph E. Stiglitz

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
Mother Jones

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
Harry Bridges

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.
Mike Huckabee

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. Merwin