Teacher Quotes

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.

Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.

Now "professional" seems to be whoever you went to school with. It constitutes your nuclear world. And that's the fault of the teachers; it's not the fault of the young artist.

I think we all feel that way when we're young we don't think teachers have lives. We don't think therapists have lives. We don't think doctors have lives.

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.

Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you to do in school.

Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.

Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

Commitment is a word that cannot stand alone. We must always ask, "Committed to what?" . . . . let us be committed to . . . using Jesus Christ as our master teacher.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

My students know I have a life, they know I've written about my life. They know some detail, probably more than they know about their physics teacher, but I would've told them anyway!

Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

I always wanted to be a teacher. A bit of me still wants to be a teacher.