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I was sent to a school with bosses for teachers- no Twain, only cane; check your dick you harry, no Dickens either, No Tom Sawyers no David Copperfields only Webster, master it for grammar, the Wren with a dash of Martini-Drink deep.
A teacher is a person who used to think he liked children.
In a democracy, a leader must be the head teacher, someone eager to respond to doubts and questions and explain the need for and the benefits of a new course.
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.
The school is a mother
Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.
Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.
I'm a teacher! A teacher, Potter! How dare yeh threaten ter break down my door!"
"I'm sorry, sir," said Harry, emphasizing the last word.
Hagrid looked stunned. "Since when have yeh called me 'sir'?"
"Since when have you called me 'Potter'?
A rector lives in a web of pretty secrets, and confidences and warnings, and the wiser he is the less he will regard them. He
That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to have three heads.
If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.
I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.
From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now.
I know what you are known as ... but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges' youthful beginnings.
There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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.
Whoe'er excels in what we prize,
Appears a hero in our eyes;
Each girl, when pleased with what is taught,
Will have the teacher in her thought.
...
A blockhead with melodious voice,
In boarding-schools may have his choice.
When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. I was your teacher.
A common misconception among youngsters attending school is that their teachers were child prodigies. Who else but a bookworm, prowling libraries and disdaining the normal youngster's propensity for play rather than study, would grow up to be a teacher anyway?
Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.
The headmaster [ ... ] pledged that, provided he behaved himself, he would be duly sheltered and cared for by the state for the rest of his days. It did not occur to any of the boys, nor their fathers, that all this would perhaps not really be free.
The coach is first of all a teacher.
For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it is only within the last thirty that any serious attempt has been made to find a remedy for this state of things. And with what result? Schools remain exactly as they were.
The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.
I was more than an elementary teacher, for I was present, or directly taught the children, from eight in the morning to seven in the evening without interruption. These two years of practice are my first and indeed my true degree in pedagogy. From the very beginning of my
Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.
Well, well, well, if it isn't Ms. Detention. How was it by the way? I'm sure your father was very proud.
Oh, Potter, you rotter, oh, what have you done,
You're killing off students, you think it's good fun -
At our best, we're all teachers
Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts
A great teacher is the architect of a great future.
He was the Teacher, the world was his students, and class was about to begin.
Page 112 The Honorable Schoolboy
He was attended this morning by his wife, a former Bible School teacher from Borneo, a dried- out shrew in bobbed hair and ankle socks who could spot a sin before it was committed.
Ms. Kendrick, are you listening to me?" Headmaster Raleigh asked. Not in the least. "Yes, sir." The sir seemed to appease him somewhat.
What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues?
Teachers are students inside out.
The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice -
instructor - and
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.
In the private system and the private schools, the principal is pretty much a dictator. He or she can hire whoever s/he wants. Of course, in the movie, in the story, she makes a mistake by hiring him. But, if she doesn't, I have no story.
I don't need your permission to search your locker. The headmaster's tone drew my attention back in his direction. This, I inferred from the rise in volume, was supposed to be the voice of authority. If you didn't need my permission, I thought, then why did you ask for it?
Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind.
Nobody at Padua High School fits that description.
Teachers are the greatest freaks on earth, ...
All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
Chapter 15 A Tempest in the School Teapot
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.
New teacher, if old was GreenHollyWood the new.... will be.... will be.... why not Holly Grendery... a teacher who lives agony - My Father (Bill) used to say if somebody is feeling miserable... let's take him out of his own misery.
Mrs Thomas has that look again. The one that says, 'this is why I am a teacher'.
A teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself.
I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.
A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.
The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.
Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.
Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ...
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.
The best teacher kindles the fire of knowledge with appreciation and love of students whose hearts so eagerly desire to learn.
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.
A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
Teachers are the architects of a Nation. They build characters, construct personalities and strengthen spirits in learners who become National Assets of tomorrow.
[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
leaders' work as teachers often starts with their recognition of an important capacity that is lacking in an organization.
Rise above principal and do what's right.
You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right ... you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean
Henry Chinaski, the principal said over the microphone. And I walked forward. There was no applause. The one kindly soul in the audience gave two or three clasps.
Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.
TEACHER
Let us begin. Repeat after me. I would like
STUDENT
I wud like
TEACHER
To feed your fingertips
STUDENT
To feed yur fingerteeps
TEACHER
To the wolverines.
Hogwarts is threatened!" shouted Professor McGonagall. "Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!
Is he a sophomore?" Lydia says. "Please tell me he's in our grade."
"I don't know," I say.
"But weren't you there when he came to the office?" Peyton says.
"The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins.
Eton produced Society's Monsters - everyone knew that. Politicians, mostly, and occasionally people who ran banks and all the other institutions that stole the world's spoils for themselves.
Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.
You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.
At our best, we are all teachers
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say."
"That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... weirdos, that's what you two are ... "
"You didn't think it was such a freak's school when you wrote the headmaster and begged him to take you.
Then Father said: If the teacher has to thrash you again, Royal, I'll give you a thrashing you'll remember.
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable.
A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.
Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.
There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teach school
The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.
I was a teacher once.