Teacher Quotes

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves

If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.