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  • The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them. -- Andy Hargreaves
  • Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. -- Robert Reich
  • Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. -- Michael Gove
  • I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. -- Beverly Cleary
  • If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields. -- Michael Bennet
  • To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded. -- Michael Bennet
  • Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. -- James S. Coleman
  • The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
  • Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. -- Alice Walker
  • 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
  • I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. -- David Eddings
  • 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
  • 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
  • Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. -- Hugh Mackay
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000. -- Arne Duncan
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