Teacher Quotes

Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings and helps each individual find his uniqueness.

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.

Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.

The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul.

If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.