I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even more.

- Alison Goldfrapp

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

- Bruce Dickinson

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

- Bill Nye

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

- Bill Gates

Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.

- Bikram Choudhury

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

- Andrew Clements

Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school with brilliant teachers including some from overseas.

- Ajay Mehta

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

- Adam Garcia

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

- Apollonius of Tyana

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

- Anna Netrebko

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

- Albert Bandura

I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.

- Antony Beevor

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

- Ann Bancroft

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

- Arne Duncan

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

- Anthony Horowitz

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.

- Alan Bennett

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

- Adam Hamilton

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

- Adam Hamilton

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

- Amy Poehler