Wendy Kopp Quotes

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

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

The coach is first of all a teacher.

I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.

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.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

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.

I'm a big fan of teachers.

To teach is to learn twice.

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.

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.

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

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

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