Teacher Quotes
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.
I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.
My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.
I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.
I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.
The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.
There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.
The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.
Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.
The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value most—teacher.
A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.
If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.
