Bad Teachers Quotes

“This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!”
― Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

“An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.”
― Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season

“Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?'

I thought about a humanities teacher I’d worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I’d worked with in Germany. I said, 'I think most schools have a resident idiot.”
― Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season

“70% of schoolteachers teach only in their spare time, or when they are in the mood.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“I know, at the beginning of the day, that when I walk into these new classrooms all I'll remember is the way the teacher's said, "kalysis?... kahsis?... kaysis?"
As if they're asking a question?
Making me feel like my name is a question?
Making me feel like my existence is questionable?
If you have a question about how to pronounce my name, the question should sound something like this - "How do I pronounce this?”
― Ka'Isis Lee