Teacher Quotes

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.

Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ.

To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher, a clarifier, and your friend, especially if you are trying to make change.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

That's what we do on "MasterChef," on "Junior." No school teachers, no parents, let it go. You're going to go on a challenge. We're going to go to hell and back, and we're going to have some bumps.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong.

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak through paint not through words."

I did not come to collect students, but to train teachers.

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

There's a lot of fear - in fact, teachers and parents are calling it the Trump effect. Bullying is up. A lot of people are feeling, you know, uneasy. A lot of kids are expressing their concerns.

A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.

And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

I testify that our teacher, our shepherd, is Christ, our best friend, who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds and turns our pain into sweet experiences.

I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

Teachers today can't take to a child.

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.

Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.