Bill O'Reilly Quotes

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.

College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.