Teacher Quotes

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
James S. Coleman

Learning, Child, Classmates

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
Chris Christie

Family, Health, Medical

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
Ann Bancroft

Struggle, Wanted, Student

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie

Change, Good, May

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
Fred W. Friendly

Greatest, Story, Since

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
Mike Krzyzewski

Love, Group, Loved

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Edward Gibbon

Important, Two, Personal

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
Loretta Young

Another, Everyone, Read

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
Charles Schumer

Teaching, Profession, Exalted

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
Donna Shalala

Makes, Support, Difference

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Maria Callas

Good, Great, Best

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
Michael Porter

Best, Teach, Teachers

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Dave Chappelle

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
Scott Hamilton

Smarter, Grade, Allowing

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
Thomas Szasz

Power, Authority, Minimal

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
Elisabeth Rohm

Learning, Student, Stop

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
Joe Baca

Education, Children, Parents

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
John Strachan

School, End, Greatest

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Bainbridge Colby

Respect, Loyalty, Lesson

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
James Levine

Moment, Lucky, Teachers

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.
Sly Stone

Learning, Teaching

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
Loni Anderson

Education, Degree, University

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.
Paul Twitchell

Truth, Past, Give

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
Yakov Smirnoff

Live, May, After

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.
Ellen Ochoa

Best, Help, Give

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