Teacher Perception Quotes

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

If you're funny and working in education, I think the perception is that you're either inspirational or awful. So which was I? I suppose that depends on who you talk to.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.