Top 100 Great Teacher Quotes
#1. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.
Camron Wright
#2. How to be a great teacher:
Know your students.
Know your subject.
Make it relevant.
Teach in an organized place, in an organized way.
Encourage curiosity.
Ask the questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
Time is priceless.
Care.
Dee Henderson
#3. Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Oprah Winfrey
#4. The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.
H.L. Mencken
#5. Don't swear at your past; you couldn't existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#7. Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His
being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
C.S. Lewis
#8. William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.
Jill Ker Conway
#9. Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
Deepak Chopra
#10. What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.
Nathaniel Branden
#11. I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
#12. The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.
Carly Fiorina
#13. Although failure is a great teacher, we cannot afford the time to learn from our failures. Human societies cannot be subjected to such a process.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#14. One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.
Yo-Yo Ma
#15. To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
James Joyce
#16. One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it.
Sakyong Mipham
#18. Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.
Edward Eggleston
#19. And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.
Dave Winfield
#21. My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.
Deborah Mailman
#22. I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'
Elizabeth Gilbert
#23. A great teacher attains immortality in his students.
David Mitchell
#24. Life is like a great teacher ... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.
Ricky Martin
#26. Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.
Susanne Bier
#27. Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.
Deepak Chopra
#28. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.
Akeem Ayers
#29. A good teacher teaches through words. A Great teacher teaches through actions. A good teacher is appreciated. A great teacher is emulated.
Shubha Vilas
#30. Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.
Frederick Lenz
#32. A great teacher not only teaches, but they also encourage and appreciate improvement.
Debasish Mridha
#33. A Great Teacher is like a fountain; she draws from the still, deep waters of personal growth and professional knowledge to serve others from her abundant overflow.
Wynn Godbold
#35. Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher,' said Harry loudly, 'there was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head.' This
J.K. Rowling
#36. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
Patrick Rothfuss
#37. Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#38. I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.
Judy Collins
#39. When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You also need to be lonely, because loneliness is a great teacher, too.
Paul Theroux
#40. I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
#41. Every great leader is clearly teaching and every great teacher is leading
Robert J. Marzano
#43. Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
Carrie Fisher
#44. Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.
William James Mayo
#45. We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.
Jesse Williams
#46. When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art,
Geoffrey Canada
#47. I am pretty involved with everything that goes on, and overtime have learned a lot about the business side of things. I have an amazing manager, who understands the business really well, so he is a great teacher.
Tristan Prettyman
#48. Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.
Eleanora Duse
#49. I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last ... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
Tadashi Yanai
#50. I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.
Nikki Giovanni
#51. Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
Sonia Sotomayor
#52. A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.
Deval Patrick
#53. Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!
J.K. Rowling
#54. Now let's sincerely and wholeheartedly wish long life to our great leader, great teacher, great commander, and great helmsman, Chairman Mao." Her
Ji-li Jiang
#55. Repetition is indeed a great teacher when learning any mathematical skill.
Kenneth Williams
#56. Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.
Lynsay Sands
#57. The measure of a great teacher isn't what he or she knows; it's what the students know.
John C. Maxwell
#58. A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success.
Debasish Mridha
#59. A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
Laurence Housman
#60. Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#61. Sometimes being a great teacher means learning to function in a dysfunctional environment. Save your fighting strength until you have enough experience to be taken seriously, and until you know which battles o fight.
Roxanna Elden
#62. Many atheists embrace Jesus as having been a great teacher, and yet he's the one who had the most to say about hell.
J.P. Moreland
#63. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
William L.K.
#64. There was only one elective at my college for acting, but thank God for that elective because we had a great teacher who introduced me to the Meisner technique for acting. Once I read that book, I said, 'Wow, if I could do that and have that honest moment on stage, that would be amazing.'
Nestor Carbonell
#65. A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.
Suze Orman
#66. Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#68. They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Mark Lawrence
#69. I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.
Juliette Binoche
#70. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.
James C. Collins
#71. Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
Leslie Fiedler
#72. Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#73. Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
Bill Gates
#74. Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. Time is a great teacher,
Who can live without hope?
Carl Sandburg
#76. A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
Herbie Hancock
#77. It's a wonderful thing to find a great teacher, but you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you're able to listen to, trust, and implement the lessons you receive.
Ann Patchett
#78. Wherever you find something extraordinary, you'll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.
Arne Duncan
#79. But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
Buddy Rich
#80. Life is the great teacher. An unforgiving task master at times. Its lessons are not easily forgotten
Jocelyn Murray
#81. I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.
Michael Symon
#82. Instead of asking, "What can I do to make these students perform?" the great teacher says, "Something's not working! I must not be truly inspirational. What do I need to do to spark their passion to do the hard work to get a superb education?"
Oliver DeMille
#83. The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.
Paul Rankin
#84. He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.
Pete Carroll
#85. A great teacher plants the seeds of greatness in the minds of future generations.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.
James Arthur Ray
#87. A great teacher not only teaches, they cultivate green fields to grow beautiful flowers to spread the fragrance of peace, happiness, and prosperity.
Debasish Mridha
#89. He thought of Jesus as a great teacher, a rebel who refused to see the poor and disenfranchised mistreated.
Alice Hoffman
#90. St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: "As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form....
Titus Burckhardt
#92. Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
Steve Harvey
#93. Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.
Jennifer James
#94. Experience is a great teacher, and we were then in her school, and learned that while hope offers the faintest token of refuge, we pause upon the fearful brink of eternity, and look back for rescue.
Fanny Kelly
#95. Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.
Pat Conroy
#96. Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore;
What future bliss He gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
Alexander Pope
#97. I think you'll be a great teacher, said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.
Matthew Norman
#98. A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.
Hosur Narasimhaiah
#99. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
Bobby Ray Inman
#100. Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
Kobe Bryant