Teacher Quotes

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

There is no other teacher but your own soul.

The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.

No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.