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  • 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
  • I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching. -- Chelsea Clinton
  • A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. -- Robert Reich
  • We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching. -- Ralph Regula
  • The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards. -- John Engler
  • Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. -- Michael Gove
  • Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport. -- Erin Gruwell
  • At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting. -- Omar Dorsey
  • If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields. -- Michael Bennet
  • I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. -- Beverly Cleary
  • To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms. -- William Hague
  • My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching. -- Joanne Harris
  • I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing. -- F. Sionil Jose
  • Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. -- John Jay Chapman
  • Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals. -- Michael Bennet
  • Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money. -- Jesse L. Martin
  • If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class. -- Richard Dreyfuss
  • The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary. -- Laurieann Gibson
  • 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
  • I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches. -- Harvey Penick
  • 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
  • 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
  • Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that. -- Erich Schiffmann
  • The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners. -- Albert Camus
  • To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded. -- Michael Bennet
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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