Rachel Hurd-Wood Quotes

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

Children need models rather than critics.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

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

Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.

But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot.

If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day for my own children.

I would like to be somebody young people, young girls, can look up to.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

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

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching.