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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared… to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society. – Shirley Hufstedler

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. – Howard Crosby

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats. – Joe Davis

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people. – Richard Stengel

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. – Timothy McVeigh

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesnt have tenure. – Bill Gates

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you cant move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. – Robert Frost

We spend the first twelve months of our childrens lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. – Phyllis Diller

A professor is someone who talks in someone elses sleep. – W. H. Auden

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audiences attention, then he can teach his lesson. – John Henrik Clarke

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teachers help. – Bodhidharma

Lets reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers. – P. J. ORourke

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher cant relate by talking to a group of friendly students, hell never be a competent teacher. – William Glasser

Suffering is one of lifes great teachers. – Bryant H. McGill

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But Im lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. – Ann Bancroft

TV is bigger than any story it reports. Its the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. – Fred W. Friendly

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. Its not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers. – Donna Shalala

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupils means great teachers foresee a pupils ends. – Maria Callas

If I can make a teachers salary doing comedy, I think thats better than being a teacher. – Dave Chappelle

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as weve heard in fairy tales. – Yakov Smirnoff