Teacher Quotes

Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I've never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.

I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

I think great teachers, which coaches are, are the ones that you hear.

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers.

Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

Life experience is the best teacher.

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.

It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.

Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.

There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of the ZIP code that he or she lives in.

Basically [I become a Republican], pretty early. I had an English teacher that got me to subscribe to the National Review.