Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

I know from my experiences in life that educators had an enormous impact and influence on me. And fortunately or unfortunately, I had a lot of experience with different educators.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.

Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

We need more concept-development and active involvement, less tuning forks, pulleys, and friction formulas - students know they'll never use those. They need more study of outer space and DNA. They need more exciting teaching, more fair-minded encouragement, more career guidance, more mentorship. Both students and teachers need more feedback. It would help if we stopped protecting bad teachers - It's very difficult to get rid of even sexual perverts let alone just bad teachers.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?