Educators Quotes

The primary objective of Federal efforts in family life and sex education has been to reduce unwanted pregnancy rates among teenagers, while the primary goal of most sex educators appears to be encouragement of healthy attitudes about sex and sexuality.

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

At our best, we are all teachers

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

What began to weigh heavily upon me was that at the same time I was struggling to get my scholars and their families to believe in themselves, I was part of an educational system that despite its best intentions, only reinforced their failures.

Great judges are also great teachers.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive.

At our best, we're all teachers

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.

If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

They're my instructors, and every parent will understand that.

I come from a family of educators.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence .