Sonny Perdue Quotes

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.

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

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

A great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids and who's making the kids want to learn and who's inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world.

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

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.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

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.

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

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

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

It is much better to want a teacher than to want the desire to learn.

Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.

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.

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

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

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

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

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

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.