Teaching Impact Quotes

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

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

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching.

Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

Teaching is not the work in which a man can live and grow.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.

It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.

People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.

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

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.