#teachers

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#education #teachers #education

Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#teachers #education

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to. ↗

— Taylor Mali

#teachers #education

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. ↗

— Henry Adams

#students #teachers #education

The best teachers become the best teachers by being their own best students. ↗

— Laurie Gray

#students #teachers #education

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room ↗

— Taylor Mali

#teachers #education

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#grades #grading #teachers #teaching #education

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing. ↗

— Taylor Mali

#teachers #education

Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have real work to do and a lot of it, so they don't have a whole lot of free time on their hands. ↗

— Taylor Mali

#teachers #education

(on teachers) But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a lack of support from the educational bureaucracy, and a pervasive feeling of isolation. ↗

— Barack Obama

#change