Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do. – Major Owens

Ask everyone whether they’re an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve. – Debra Messing

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. – James S. Coleman

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. John Ciardi

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. –Orison Swett Marden

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years. – Amartya Sen

Our lives teach us who we are. Salman Rushdie

Old age and the passage of time teach all things. Sophocles

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. Wayne Dyer

It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom. Michael Morpurgo

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. William Blake

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. – Sidney Hook