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If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers. -- Todd Whitaker
The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching. -- Andy Hargreaves
The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. -- Robert Reich
I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches. -- Harvey Penick
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching. -- Ralph Regula
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards. -- John Engler
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching. -- B. F. Skinner
Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching. -- Nikki Giovanni
Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport. -- Erin Gruwell
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. -- Michael Gove
The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends. -- Bob Goff
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care. -- Horace Mann
If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields. -- Michael Bennet
Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that. -- Erich Schiffmann
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. -- Beverly Cleary
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners. -- Albert Camus
The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them. -- Andy Hargreaves
President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his? -- Jay Leno
To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded. -- Michael Bennet
We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers. -- Wendy Kopp
There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers. -- Dana Goldstein
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. -- Keith Johnstone
Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. -- Jeannette Walls
Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage. -- Ken Robinson
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement. -- Alan Bennett
What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test. -- Claire McCaskill
I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid. -- Erin Gruwell
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew. -- Thom Gunn
Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field. -- Alan Tower Waterman
The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them. -- Tom Stoppard
Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings. -- Arne Duncan

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