Bill Nye Quotes

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

Great teachers transcend ideology.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I - and I would direct the class, most of the time.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

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

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.