Bad Teacher Quotes

• there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Plenty

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• One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

  Gregory Colbert

  Teacher, School, Library

  "Dances With Whales". Interview with Alan Riding, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.

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• The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

  Stephen Neill

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

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• The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

  Chris Pratt

  Teacher, Thinking, Bridesmaids

  "The Very Busy Chris Pratt on Preparing for Moneyball, Goofing in What's Your Number? and Ten Year". Interview with Christopher Rosen, movieline.com. August 29, 2011.

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• If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

  Marie Clay

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Teacher

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals

  Walter Lewin

  Teacher, Learning, Bored

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• The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

  Stephen Brookfield

  Education, Teacher, Real

  Stephen Brookfield (1995). “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher”, Jossey-Bass

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• Its my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Teacher, Journey, Brain

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• Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Teacher, Financial, Salespeople

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2017

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• As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.

  Rachel Hurd-Wood

  Teacher, Children, Kids

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• The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active education beyond just teaching mathematics and French and English because the kids spend more time there than they do with their parents at that age. We have to accept that other adults will be part of our children's education and they will have bad teachers. That's going to happen.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  Source: collider.com

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• A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Games, Hands

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.136, Holt Paperbacks

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• I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the institution “schools” very well, but it does not “educate”; that’s inherent in the design of the thing. It’s not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It’s just impossible for education and schooling to be the same thing.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, School, Ignorance

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.28, New Society Publishers

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