Teacher Quotes

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

Our real teacher has been and still is the embryo, who is, incidentally, the only teacher who is always right.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.

I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far.

I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.

We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

I always feel the audience is my best teacher.

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

My parents were very traditional Nigerians who wanted doctor, lawyer, teacher [children], but when I actually had a dream and I presented the dream to them, they were 100 percent supportive.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.

I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.