Teacher Quotes - Page 18

• We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Needs, Students

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Art, Years, May

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• In education, I'm going to try to find what works. One thing I want to do is improve the quality of teachers. There are a lot of people who want to go into teaching; it's fundamentally a very fulfilling profession. But people don't feel they have financial support. We pay starting teachers in particular too little to attract the quality people that we need. I want to make it easier for good people who want to go into teaching to do that.

  Charles Schumer

  Teaching, People, Support

  Source: www.questia.com

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• I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Believe, Years, Community

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Sports, Athlete, Salary

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

  John Carlos

  Father, School, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

  David Brooks

  Unions, May, Republican

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing to care about. It's because it's the one issue where the Democratic donor base was really energized, which was the teacher unions.

  David Brooks

  School, Issues, Choices

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Player, Ifs

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Moving, Kids

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Want, Performances

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I was always big on laughs, giving and receiving. It wasn't necessarily good for my teachers. Of course there's times where you go too far. My mom had to tell me, "Boy, if I have to come down to this school one more time, you're gonna get it."

  Kevin Hart

  Mom, School, Boys

  Source: digitaledition.chicagotribune.com

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• My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and essay writing. But when he selected one of my essays as the best in the class, it gave me the confidence to see myself as a writer.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Appreciation, Writing, Class

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• It's so critical that we make America once again the most attractive place in the world to start businesses, to build jobs, to grow the economy. And that's not going to happen by just hiring teachers.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, America, World

  Source: genius.com

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• In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and portraits and landscapes in watercolor and acrylics, took private lessons, won some blue ribbons for my earnest renderings. My lack of talent did little to dampen my enthusiasm. In college I thought I'd continue, but, like Salieri, I quickly realized that while I had the ability to appreciate art, I wasn't actually very good.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Art, School, College

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Although Christ in my mind is an absolute yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ. They're supposed to be representing Jesus, but they're not doing it very well. They're letting him down very badly, and that's a big turn off.

  George Harrison

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• Every teaching position, every missionary position can be held by single people. We welcome to that kind of service people who are struggling with any kind of temptation when the struggle is a good struggle and they are living so as to be appropriate teachers, or missionaries, or whatever the calling may be.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Struggle, Teaching, People

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, School, Eight

  Source: www.mott.org

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• I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy.

  D. C. Jarvis

  Jobs, Real, Believe

  D. C. Jarvis (2013). “Folk Medicine”, p.3, Read Books Ltd

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• I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and handed it in to my teacher. She told my mother I was going to be a writer. Since then, I always kept a journal and wrote poetry, plays, stories.

  Renee Watson

  Mother, Years, Play

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Because of social media, we have access to amazing spiritual teachers. You can watch the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Eckhart Tolle or any number of other masters. Their teachings are available and we must celebrate that.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Spiritual, Teaching, Media

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I love teaching I think more than anything. It's the opportunity to just teach young people and teach the game. You teach more than basketball. You teach life skills. The teaching part of it is something that I am passionate about. I look forward to every practice. A lot of people say well, I enjoy coaching, but I see myself as more as a teacher.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Teaching, Opportunity

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Mother, Jobs, Husband

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to these things or I don't go to them. I hate panels. I speak to librarians and to conferences of English teachers. That's what I do: teachers and librarians. And high school kids.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Hate, Kids, School

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Fall, Son

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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