Teacher Quotes

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.

My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.

I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.

If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.

In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead.

I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.

When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

Yesterday should be the teacher of today.

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers.

My teachers used to call me a failure