Taylor Mali Quotes

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.

I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

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

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

Those who care, teach. Those who love, teach. Those who can, teach.

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.

It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.

The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

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

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

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.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.