Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.

It doesn't matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.

My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

My teacher wanted me to do 'Hot Cross Buns,' but all I wanted to learn was 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

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