1.
“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail
shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind
and you jump to the skies.”
2.
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce
them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
3.
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
4.
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they
show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no
longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter
before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
5.
“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and
evil to the core.”
6.
“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when
you don't know it”
7.
“My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on
her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange
to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is
morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.”
8.
“Fifty?” Harry gasped.
“Fifty
points each,” said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily.
“Professor
— please —”
“You
can’t —”
“Don’t
tell me what I can and can’t do, Potter. I’ve never been more ashamed of
Gryffindor students.”
9.
“Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon
'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with
us.”
10.
“That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that
could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't
been innocent for years.”
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