Teacher Quotes

Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

I learned from my teachers but became through my music

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings….

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.