Teacher Quotes

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

When people say that entertainers should "know your place," they might as well say the same thing about plumbers and teachers and cab drivers. We all should be able to express our views.

Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.

The goal of teaching is learning, not teaching.

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Experience is the best teacher.

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

Jesus is more than a friend. He is a teacher of truth and life who shows us the way that leads to happiness.

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

Physician, heal thyself. Teacher, teach yourself.

A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.