Top 100 Good Teacher Quotes
#1. A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Bruce Lee
#3. No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.
Bertrand Russell
#4. One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.
Gregory Maguire
#5. The old huntsman was a surprisingly good teacher. He didn't belabor his points, didn't talk down to us, and didn't mind questions. Even Tempi's trouble with the language didn't frustrate him. Even
Patrick Rothfuss
#6. A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.
Bruce Nauman
#7. I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy.
Rachel Caine
#8. A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.
Bill Parcells
#10. A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
Martin H. Fischer
#11. A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#12. I wasn't a very good teacher.
Amos Lee
#14. A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.
Pope Francis
#16. How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.
Frederick Lenz
#18. Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily ... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.
Bono
#19. A good teacher teaches what he has been taught. A wise one teaches what he has learned
Ralph Helfer
#20. My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method.
Keith Johnstone
#21. A good teacher will show you the ropes in the world of power. They will give you the wisdom that is necessary to be able to use power. You just don't give a kid a new Ferrari. You teach him how to drive it.
Frederick Lenz
#22. A good teacher teaches through words. A Great teacher teaches through actions. A good teacher is appreciated. A great teacher is emulated.
Shubha Vilas
#23. To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
William James
#24. A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.
Richard Rohr
#25. Though it is not the most enjoyable experience in the world, hardship is a very good teacher. When you encounter it, you cannot help but to listen to it. It speaks with power.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#26. We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.
Noam Chomsky
#27. Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
Maggie Gallagher
#29. One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie
#30. Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
Adora Svitak
#31. For many kids, a good teacher may be the most palpable form of honor they will ever experience.
David Denby
#32. A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#33. When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.
Richard Simmons
#34. Mac: "It's not the sidhe-seers." He stopped and went very still. JZB: "Who is it?" Mac: "The MacKeltars." He was silent a long moment. Then he began to laugh, softly. JZB: "Well played, Ms. Lane." Mac: "I had a good teacher." JZB: "The best. Hop on one foot, Ms. Lane." Mac and Barrons
Karen Marie Moning
#35. It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.
Frederick Lenz
#36. I've been a good teacher for eleven years, and then they come up with this mandated testing crap? With the state pushing for performance, the Board of Ed would have been all over me once those test results came in! Me? Like it's my fault these kids can't pass a test?
Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa
#37. Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Shah Rukh Khan
#38. Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Marva Collins
#39. The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.
Stephen Neal
#40. I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.
Erin Gruwell
#41. It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.
Yip Man
#42. When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.
Cecilia Bartoli
#43. I believe in having a few pupils at one time as it requires a constant alert observation of each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine ... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.
Bruce Lee
#44. Everyone knew the hero in any good romance had to have his fair share of experience. If he didn't, how was he going to be a good teacher, showing his lady love how to give him pleasure at the same time giving her more than she'd ever dreamed?
Kristen Ashley
#45. A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching.
Anthony Liccione
#46. I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material,
Eric Mazur
#47. We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability.
Carly Fiorina
#48. You have to be a good student before you can be a good teacher.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#49. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Brad Henry
#50. A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.
Jane Vella
#51. As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.
Noam Chomsky
#52. You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published?
Wallace Stegner
#53. I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.
Benjamin Walker
#54. No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
John Ruskin
#55. Questions to ask yourself: Are you a good teacher? Who would know? You would. Your students. Your friends. Your God. Not a bad audience, that!
Joe J. Christensen
#56. When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster ... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.
Joy Harjo
#57. One cannot be a good teacher unless he is a good student.
Shiv Khera
#58. A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.
Paul Goodman
#59. Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#60. Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.
Paula Creamer
#61. Ask any good teacher or any business executive who's been in the trenches. They will tell you that attitude trumps ability every time.
James P. Owen
#62. Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
Keith Emerson
#63. A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.
Julius Lester
#65. A good teacher offers practice , a bad one offers theories .
Anthony De Mello
#66. A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#67. You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
Nhat Hanh
#68. One of the tricks of being a good teacher, he'd learned, was not to overuse the Look.
Peter Clines
#69. Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.
Frederick Lenz
#70. The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.
Bell Hooks
#72. It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "such a good teacher/daughter/friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is F*** YOU ALL.
Claire Messud
#73. When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.
Bono
#74. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
Marva Collins
#75. Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
#76. From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself
Rachel Naomi Remen
#77. A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
Eliphas Levi
#78. You've really helped him a lot."
Samsara shrugged. "It's mostly Raz's insight. I just nudge him a little occasionally."
"Which is what a good teacher does.
Amy Thomson
#79. In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.
Bell Hooks
#81. A smooth lecture ... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.
Paul Halmos
#82. Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.
Bernie Mac
#83. All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.
Neale Donald Walsch
#84. A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
John Henrik Clarke
#85. You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?
Frank McCourt
#86. Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
#87. So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
Donald Norman
#88. Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
Godfrey Reggio
#89. Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.
Fiore Dei Liberi
#90. How'd you get to be so good at this?"
"I had a good teacher."
"Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass."
"I mean you, dummy."
"Oh.
Rachel Caine
#91. So a good teacher at the right time in your life can make a frog into a prince!
Rashmi Bansal
#92. A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#93. A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.
Hosur Narasimhaiah
#94. [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.
Miriam Makeba
#97. A good teacher is someone you're willing to share your ugliest, roughest work with and who doesn't make you feel ashamed or stupid.
Felicia Day
#98. A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.
Eva Amurri
#99. People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.
Israel Gelfand
#100. A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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