#teachers

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

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#individuality #intelligence #objectivism #schooling #students

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#expected #goals #impossible #inadequate #miracle

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#school #teachers #education

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did. ↗

— Meg Wolitzer

#love

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way. ↗

— Taylor Mali

#teachers #art

In my ten years of teaching I’ve noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize that this is because we talk for a living, and we feel safe speaking our feelings aloud. Or it could be that most of us, especially the high school teacher variety, are just weird as shit. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#high-school