Teacher Quotes

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Jesus has given you the power to live as He lived, which is something no earthly teacher can do.

Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

It’s not the job of the teacher to save a child’s soul; it is the teacher’s job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

Nature is our greatest teacher.

My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my marriage.

Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.