Todd Whitaker quotes

The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.
-- Todd Whitaker

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Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.
-- Todd Whitaker

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If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.
-- Todd Whitaker

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Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.

Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am.