Teacher Quotes
When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.
In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.
Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.
Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.
