Teachers Quotations | Page 4

Katie Hogan, a teaching scholar, and Mary Farmer, our fellow and an award-winning teacher from Illinois, will discuss what they think future teachers should know and things you won't learn in class.

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

John and Vicki Kirby have long supported education in the Pee Dee both personally and professionally. We are extremely appreciative of their efforts to help educate the region's future teachers through this scholarship.

I think it may take a little while for teachers to feel that comfort level again.

I think it helps focus students on being accountable for what they have to learn. It also focuses accountability back on teachers so that they are doing a good job teaching students what they need to know.

I think it is important for us as teachers to offer a huge spread of courses from Plato, the deadest white male around, to very modern philosophy.

It can be quite hard for teachers to understand what pupils are saying sometimes.

It boils down to a handful of parents and teachers doing all the work ... a resource better used in the classroom than fundraising to go to Disneyland.

It becomes a big deal when something like this happens where we don't catch him before the end of the day. Most teachers never know this goes on, most students never know this goes on because we catch them before the end of the day. Well, this time we didn't and we're going to keep looking.

It is a great tribute to the hard work of the girls combined with dedicated teachers and tutors.

It is a different genre-a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

I think that Pickens County will do their best to address the facility needs and the teacher salary needs. And I think in five years we will be very competitive in those two areas. But even so, with the number of teachers retiring and leaving the profession I think it's going to be an issue statewide as well as nationally.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

I think with the veterans, they have seen the good, the bad and the ugly. They are able to vocalize the team, and they are good teachers of the game.

I think the cost should be borne mainly by the government and if teachers are to bear any cost of it (upgrading), the government should provide them with loans.

I think the concern was that North Carolina has worked so hard to raise standards for teachers and maintain those standards.

It is clear and everybody knows that with the short amount of funds the (Department of Education) has that teachers in the classroom have to dip into their pockets to fund these projects.

I was always the kid in school that teachers were getting after to be quiet. My report card had math, A, reading, A, spelling, A, science, A, conduct, F. I was always talking to somebody. They would always take me and put me over in a corner by myself.

I think we should teach a lot about evolution. In fact, I think we should teach more than the evolutionary science teachers want the students to know. The problem is what we're getting is a philosophy that's claimed to be scientific fact, a lot of distortion in the textbooks, and all the difficult problems left out, because they don't want people to ask tough questions.

I think that anytime you reach any type of milestone like that, there are so many factors that play a part of that success. I had great teachers and coaches who instilled important aspects of coaching in me. I learned along the way from many great people.

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

I think it's unfortunate for teachers feeling that way, that they don't want to be singled out.

I thank the parents for sending me the finished product. These guys were truly ambassadors for our program. I can't tell you how many teachers have told me what a great group they've been in the classroom. That same attitude that made them successful in the classroom made them a success on the court.

I thank the Oregon Science Teachers Association for its participation in National Chemistry Week. These teachers are molding the next generation of scientists.

I thank the faculty and administration and students for their support over the years. We have super teachers who are quality people to work with.

I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call.

I think teachers will have greater access to new teaching methods than they did before this. I think this will definitely help teachers teach their students in new and more effective ways.

I think that is a great idea. Anything the commissioners can do to encourage young teachers to come to Jackson County and stay is great.

Lawrence Central is a great place. The teachers and administrators are extremely supportive, there are outstanding assistant coaches, and I have a great group of kids.

I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

I think they should leave the schools in the community. They can really bond with teachers and each other here.

It is a real problem and a real drain on teachers, but I've always found that every time I get an upgrade of technology, my workload doesn't get easier. It's kind of a Band-aid, a little gimmick that he's using to sell teachers on this.

I think the schools in a small town give you attention you need. A lot of my kids teachers are people I went to school with, so I know them,

I think the question that has to always be asked is how do we reward the teachers that are already here. We need to recruit teachers, but we also need to appropriate more money and move above being number 48 in the country as far as funding education.

Just as teachers put together report cards for their students at the end of the term, so do we at the end of the legislative session. We're willing to support any candidate who will stand up for kids and education.

(Jesse) was alienated from school. He wasn't learning much. He didn't have a lot of teachers who were close to him. He didn't have social acceptance. He had never been invited to a party in high school. He's very much a loner.

Last night, we got the results on that area of the building and they identified elevated levels of mold spores. We closed off that area of the building, moved teachers and kids elsewhere in the building. Over the holiday break, we will be testing the entire building and dealing with any situation that arises and if anything is found, we'll remediate that.

Pen-based computing has the potential to alter the way students and teachers interact.

Over a quarter-million math and science teachers are needed, and it's hard to tell where the pipeline is. That is like a ticking time bomb not just for technology companies, but for business and the U.S. economy.

Parents are out there who want to help, they're just not sure about what they should do. And teachers have told us that establishing a stronger line of communication with the parents is something they'd like to do, but again, they aren't sure what the best strategies are.

Over this next month, clergy from the pulpits, teachers in the classrooms, volunteers throughout our churches, mosques, temples and synagogues will be engaged in this effort,

Parents and teachers play a critical role in caring for children with asthma. Our goal is to provide resources to ensure that everybody in a child's life has the information they need to manage their asthma on a daily basis.

Parents and teachers have brought children back. We've been told this is the most ideal Halloween event -- a high-class, sophisticated haunted house in beautiful, elaborate surroundings. We don't have to put blood anywhere, because the house and the stories are interesting enough.

Parents and students can expect to have the chance to speak one-on-one with representatives from each of the schools, ranging from admission officers to teachers and parents. It's a nice way to get information from different people.

Our primary focus was to help the teachers and students in the makeshift schools in Hancock County.

Our teachers really cooperate with each other, and if somebody is absent and we don't have a sub, they're great about covering for each other.

Our school facilities must be repaired, and our teachers need to be trained and treated as artisans of a noble profession.

Our teachers also are aware that they basically have to serve two masters. You have to prepare students to do well on the DSTP, but you can't neglect the fact that students have to do well on the SAT.

Our focus on culture is obvious, ... We must ensure we do have an atmosphere in all our schools such that students can learn and teachers can teach.

Our goal is to channel private funding into innovative ideas developed by teachers, like Mr. Harris, who are willing to invest time and energy into their students. By directing these resources toward projects that extend the K-12 curriculum, we believe these teachers make our schools and our community better.

Overall, I think the teachers really enjoyed knowing there is a resource out there.

Rescuing Recess is a part of Cartoon Network's overall GET ANIMATED program that encourages kids to lead active, healthy lifestyles and learn how to become advocates for issues that are important to them. Recess is the one time at school when kids get a break to have unstructured play, and serves as an essential part of their development. We want to arm kids, parents and teachers with tools to ensure that recess remains a part of the school day, so this is just the beginning of a larger Cartoon Network effort to empower our youth.

Really, the critical part to retaining teachers is a salary increase.

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.

Really what this is about is working with teachers to talk about issues of consistency within the curriculum and more power to engage kids.

Pay teachers to turn up on Saturdays and after school to promote school football. Better facilities would also help.

Part of our stated mission is that the Tyler Museum of Art exists as an educational and cultural center to enrich the lives of East Texas citizens. In addition to hosting tours for thousands of students each year, and working with area teachers to enrich their curricula, we host this exhibition to encourage and promote young talent.

Steve helped us, like few teachers can, by nurturing the individual assets each student arrived with and guiding us into our respective careers and lives.

Some of the teachers and the administrators are part of the problem. The federal, the state just needs to come in and take over, not just Hillside and Southern, the school board, the administrators, all of it.

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

Someone like that brings history alive. You wish you had teachers like that in school. I learned a lot.

My personal bias is to let districts and schools and teachers make the adjustments and not to try to look at a system-wide adjustment,

My relationship with the teachers here is good, but I'd rather go back to JCM (Jackson Central-Merry High).

My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.

I will work to attract and support great teachers and principals to our schools, and push to remove unacceptable ones.

I still stay in touch with my teachers from the Studio. It actually was great to be a part of that, I loved it.

I think so many of our educators, when they hear about these programs coming from the federal government, they're just thinking, 'Uh, that's another book of paperwork that I'm going to have to do,' and teachers are so weighed down with that.

It doesn't look like you need physical education teachers to be highly qualified. Or health or home economics.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

I think I eventually want to teach first or second grade. I've always liked little kids, and it's been easy for me to relate to them. I don't think I'd want to teach middle or high school. I remember how I was then, and it doesn't seem like the older kids give young teachers much respect.

I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a lot of our K-12 is a disaster. And the single most important reform would just be to fire the worst ten or 15 percent of teachers in the lot, and we would have massive improvements.

I think having three teachers in the faculty room at the same time, talking about third-grade issues, and first-grade issues in the same discussion, on a daily basis, I believe is a good thing.

Is tonight's event a pr campaign to save Mark French's job? You know I'll get a job wherever I need a job. I'm resourceful, I've got talent, and I've got skills. I'm here to help Tulsa Public School teachers defend themselves.

I think it will be wonderful for the students who don't have self-confidence, who need to be backed by teachers and principals.

I think it would be a mistake to think teachers were bad teachers before accountability and now they're good. It's that before, we were making our own standards. Now, we've got a commonality.

I think the teachers are just as excited as the kids. Many teachers told me they had difficulty sleeping because they had first day jitters.

I think they're kind of quiet the first few days. Everybody is excited and nervous to see who their teachers are.

I'm here to get an education and make a living at the same time. I think my teachers back at Tech understand, and I haven't had a problem with one of them yet. I try to work with them and be in class as much as I can.

I'm impressed with the Federal Way School District. They had disparities so extreme in their system they were forced to come up with a solution to address it. They are holding the teachers accountable. So many school districts put the burden of responsibility on the parents and the kids.

Most public school teachers are great, but everyone knows there is a small percentage that, frankly, don't belong in the classroom,

We've talked a lot about education reform here in Congress. But education reform won't work without quality teachers in our classroom.

We need our best teachers working with our most at-risk. Right now it's often the reverse.

We need motivated educators, and bureaucrats aren't helping anything, ... If they prove motivated, dedicated educators, tenure should be awarded quickly. Why should the best teachers worry about whether they'll be teaching tomorrow?

We need all our teachers to be as good as our 'good' teachers. Instead, we think programs are the problem or programs are the solution. The most valuable gift you can give yourself is confidence.

We need a fair contract. Teachers feel totally disrespected. A lot of the vote was against the disrespect that's ongoing.

The achievement gap is closing and that is great news for every student, ... These Blue Ribbon Schools are an example of what teachers and students can achieve.

(The academy) offers brand new teachers the support they need to get through that very difficult first year. It is a brand new experience and most of what you learn in college is straight from a book. That (classroom) experience is really quite different.

The assembly is a great way to bring the school together. Students and teachers need a break after intensive state testing in March.

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.

I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom.

I would it's definitely well deserved because the class sizes are small and the teachers make sure you are learning, and they make sure that your progress is where it should be. And if you aren't where you should be in the class, they definitely help you get up to a passing level or make sure your understanding everything.

I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.

I would like to see in Dare County a real sense of inclusion. There should be a culture here where students, teachers and parents are all working together to ensure that every kid feels included and safe. Non-popular kids should have opportunities to find activities at which they can excel.

I work with great people and great students, and I've had great teachers along the way.

Most of our teachers were white, and the songs that they taught us were white, so when we first started out singing, it was really more of a glee club,

Most of our students are Spanish-speaking, but regardless of their backgrounds, it's extremely gratifying to help someone learn to speak, read and write English so they can advance in their jobs and be able to talk to their children's teachers and become productive members of our community.

Midyear adjustments are less about moving teachers to new classrooms and more about how within a building, what options there are for assigning kids in. As a last resort, we might get a situation where we actually move a student to a neighboring school.

When teachers sign on to teach they expect a lot of things, but they don't expect that, and the fears that they must have had.

When teachers get together they can trade ideas, blow off steam and generally get better connected with the school. As a result, students get better, more enthusiastic teachers.

We have parent volunteer parents who come in to help with the jumping. Some teachers actually jumped with their classes, providing a role model for the kids so that they can see an adult working to be in good health, and how important it is for them to continue with this throughout their lives.