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Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

Quotes by Yair Lapid

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Quotes by Woody Allen

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Quotes by William Nicholson

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

Quotes by William Joyce

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Quotes by William Gurnall

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

Quotes by William Glasser

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

Quotes by William Glasser

There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning the system.

Quotes by Whitney Tilson

We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class.

Quotes by Wendy Kopp

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Quotes by Warren Beatty

The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.

Quotes by Walter Gropius

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

Quotes by Walker Stapleton

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Quotes by W. S. Merwin

The most important thing is to make a percussive instrument a singing instrument. Teachers should stress this aspect in their instruction, but it seems that very few of them actually do.

Quotes by Vladimir Horowitz

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

Quotes by Vanessa Williams

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

Quotes by Trevor Phillips

When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.

Quotes by Tony DiTerlizzi

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Quotes by Tom Paulin

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.

Quotes by Thom Gunn

As Speaker of the North Carolina House, I've proven I'm a problem-solver, balancing budgets, cutting wasteful spending, and providing teachers with historic pay raises.

Quotes by Thom Tillis

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

Quotes by Taylor Mali

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.

Quotes by Tavis Smiley

Great teachers transcend ideology.

Quotes by Suzanne Fields

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

Quotes by Susan Wiggs

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.

Quotes by Sugata Mitra

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

Quotes by Sue Grafton

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Quotes by Steve Allen

I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.

Quotes by Sophie Turner

The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms.

Quotes by Sonny Perdue

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

Quotes by Solomon Ortiz

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Quotes by Sidney Hook

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Quotes by Shirley Williams

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

Quotes by Scott Hamilton

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

Quotes by Sarah Churchwell

I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.

Quotes by Ryan Eggold

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Quotes by Russell M. Nelson

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

Quotes by Royce Gracie

I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.

Quotes by Roderick MacKinnon

Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.

Quotes by Robert Reich

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

Quotes by Robert Mundell

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

Roald Dahl

Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor unpatriotic. They are, however, secured creditors of Chrysler. They deserve to have their funds protected under the full auspices of the law.

Quotes by Richard Mourdock

Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and certainly no one came to the 1951 Novel's defense.

Quotes by Richard Grenell

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

Quotes by Renee Fleming

Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.

Quotes by Randi Weingarten

I've heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that's actually delaying the development of literacy.

Quotes by Randi Weingarten

Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.

Quotes by Randi Weingarten

Students and teachers should be sensitive towards the themes of empowerment of the marginalised.

Quotes by Ram Nath Kovind

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

Quotes by Ralph Regula

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.

Quotes by Phyllis Smith

I think good teachers are underpaid.

Quotes by Peter Brimelow

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

Quotes by Peter Brimelow

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

Quotes by Peter Agre

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

Quotes by Paulo Freire

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Quotes by Paul Weyrich

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

Quotes by Patrick Stewart

One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'

Quotes by Oren Etzioni

I grew up with deaf teachers, and I thought all deaf children should have exposure to deaf educators.

Quotes by Nyle DiMarco

I've proven myself a champion of workers' rights, particularly teachers.

Quotes by Nina Turner

True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Quotes by Nell Carter

No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.

Quotes by Naomi Alderman

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

Quotes by Nancy Cartwright

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

Quotes by Mstislav Rostropovich

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Quotes by Morley Safer

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

Quotes by Mitch Daniels

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

Quotes by Mike Huckabee

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

Quotes by Michael Gurian

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

Quotes by Michael Gove

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

Quotes by Michael Gove

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

Quotes by Michael Gove

I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.

Quotes by Michael Gove

I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps.

Quotes by Michael Bennet

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

Quotes by Michael Bennet

If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

Quotes by Merle Dandridge

Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.

Quotes by Medgar Evers

Great teachers should be rewarded.

Quotes by Matt Mead

I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.

Quotes by Matt Bomer

I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful.

Quotes by Maryanne Wolf

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

Quotes by Mary-Louise Parker

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

Quotes by Mary Quant

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

Quotes by Mary Harris Jones

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Ellis

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

Quotes by Martin Lewis Perl

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?

Quotes by Martin Goldsmith

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Quotes by Maria Callas

We should be firing bad teachers.

Quotes by Malcolm Gladwell

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Quotes by Maggie Gallagher

Prince Paul's one of my teachers. He's always been one of my main inspirations as far as interludes go and getting a little quirky at times.

Quotes by Madlib

Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.

Quotes by Madeline Carroll

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Quotes by Luke Ford

I'm the oldest of four children, and when I was young, I used to get the blackboard out and make my brothers and sisters sit in front of me while I taught class. They all thought I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn't. I was impersonating my teachers.

Quotes by Lucy Davis

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

Quotes by Luc Ferrari

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Quotes by Lloyd Alexander

If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.

Quotes by Koren Zailckas

I've been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.

Quotes by Kourtney Kardashian

The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

Quotes by Kinky Friedman

A rational system and order for educational administration should be established on the principle of ensuring smooth progress of teaching and scientific research by teachers and researchers, and of edification of students.

Quotes by Kim Jong-un

I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably wouldn't have noticed, stressed over magnet school applications three years before they're due.

Quotes by Kim Brooks

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

Quotes by Ken Buck

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.

Quotes by Keegan Allen

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