Simon Newcomb Quotes

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic.

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.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

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

I've gone to real school my whole life.

I learned nothing while I was in school.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.

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.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

I went to public school up until junior high.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

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

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.