Teachers Quotes

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

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.

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.

Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!"

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)

A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

He who can does. He who can't teaches.

[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Stop regretting and let your mistakes and failures be your greatest teachers in life. Wisdom can only come from living and learning.

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds.

Even the Master, in one way or another, is a student throughout life.

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls.

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America.

Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips. This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.

There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

Teaching yoga itself is great karma yoga, because it reconnects people to the source.

teachers who make lessons interesting get the attention of students

Did one learn or was one shaped?

I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.

To teach, learn. To learn, teach.

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman.

Self-confidence is built from the inside out and has little or nothing to do with outside circumstances.

If you want to increase your self-confidence as a yoga teacher very fast – go out there, face your fears, and teach as much as you possibly can!

Teachers' favorite color ink, splashed and dripped down his face a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising his life.

As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service, ' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.

The books are your teacher, after and before school.

The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.