Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Bad Ass, People

  "A Teacher, a Student and a Church-State Dispute". Letter to the New York Times, query.nytimes.com. December 21, 2006.

• I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Inspiration, People

• I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a drawer full of hate letters from hundreds of elementary schoolchildren (with supportive cover letters from their science teachers) pleading with me to reverse my stance on Pluto. The file includes a photograph of the entire third grade of a school posing on their front steps and holding up a banner proclaiming, 'Dr. Tyson - Pluto is a Planet!'

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Hate, School

• The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Art, Bad Ass

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

• The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Teaching, Inspiration

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Interview with Marina Leight, Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

• Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, School, Different Experiences

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

• The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Students, Failing

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

• Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Memories, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Class, Lessons

• There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one is, you're working hard up there. And the ones who say I'm working hard are teachers, they're the educators; they're the people who are the performers. It's a huge investment of my psycho-emotional energy to pull that off and to make it look smooth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Emotional, Two

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

• Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Stars, Community

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Standing Up in the Milky Way". Documentary, March 9, 2014.

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