Teacher Quotes

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

You can’t go to a kindergarten teacher after me.

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

All really successful coaches have a system.

I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I wasn’t always Rhodes, but I was always Dusty. I was never called Virgil – not by my family, not by my friends. Even my teachers at school didn’t call me Virgil.

If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils’ taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.