#teachers

Teachers tell me that they'd like to work more closely with parents. ↗

— Jim Knight

#like #me #more #parents #teachers

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time. ↗

— Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

#fast #first #gave #happened #i

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#bit #community #either #good #good thing

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#children #creativity #name #out #pushing

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#expectations #high #high expectations #how #meet

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#fear #guides #i #just #know

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#classroom #feedback #growth #measures #multiple

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#earnings #encourage #lot #more #much

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement. ↗

— William Glasser

#asked #define #education #general #good

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers. ↗

— Luke Ford

#fire #gut #had #i #incompetent