Teacher Quotes

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.

Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

When getting help with money, whether it is insurance, real estate or investments you should always look for a person with the heart of a teacher, not the heart of a salesman.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.

Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.

Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

The best teacher in life is experience.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.