Top 100 Quotes About A Teacher
#1. Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
James S. Coleman
#2. I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.
Michael Bennet
#3. If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.
Richard Bach
#4. There are 600 districts in India. Every district in India has a teacher-training institute.
Azim Premji
#6. What's the hardest part of being a teacher?" "Well, they basically have no filter. Whatever pops into their head comes right out of their mouths." "Sounds like Brent," he commented drily.
Tessa Bailey
#7. I am not a teacher, but I am a friend who likes to kindle your heart and awaken your mind.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and those who don't. Shape yourself in his mold, bathe in his nourishing radiance, and reflect it out to the rest of the world.
Laozi
#9. 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
#10. Be a Student as long as you live
Turn into a teacher once u leave..........
Kalyan C. Kankanala
#11. I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
James Galway
#12. Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike
#13. I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.
Jesse Stuart
#14. A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?
Stephen Colbert
#15. In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.
Sue Townsend
#16. But I was open to anything my students wanted to do, refusing to accept the idea that a teacher should confine his teaching to the classroom when so much was at stake outside it.
Howard Zinn
#17. Just as you learn from a teacher, so you can observe and learn from the educator we call nature.
Debasish Mridha
#18. My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.
John Morgridge
#19. My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.
David Blaine
#20. Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate. They learn how to ride the energy.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Give a man a teacher
and he'll learn many a thing.
Teach a man to learn
and he'll learn from everything.
Cameron Semmens
#22. Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star ...
Meg Wolitzer
#23. Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
Alice Walker
#24. I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?
David Clement-Davies
#25. You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher?" "Oh, no!" Mrs. Carey remarked with a smile, "I am just a mother,
that's all! Good night.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#26. A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
Thomas Szasz
#27. As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
Bill Moyers
#28. Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
Louis L'Amour
#29. School until the day a teacher, acting on an anonymous tip from a member of the student body, surprised the undercover couple in flagrante delicto in a broom
Junot Diaz
#30. Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.
Wayne Dyer
#31. The teacher who isn't a genius is made into a teacher of genius by the student of genius at this precise moment for a very precise time period, I thought. But
Thomas Bernhard
#32. My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.
George Emil Palade
#35. In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
Natalie Goldberg
#36. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
Peter Agre
#37. It was very controversial actually, because basically, Lion In The Grass was also a course that you were receiving college credit for. So it was like he was taking a class, but then the class which also has a teacher and everything, was competing with bands that weren't in classes.
Chris Baio
#38. My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
Nick Cave
#39. Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
Caroline Lawrence
#40. Five decades on the throne and this is how they treat me, Ms. Blakely. Makes me wish I'd been a teacher." His voice drops. He almost sounds a little wistful. "I would have liked to have been a teacher.
Ally Carter
#41. Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
Antonio Tabucchi
#43. If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.
Amy Ray
#44. A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
Wendell Berry
#45. Long ago I was a teacher and then a writer, but now I am a tender of broken bodies and injured souls.
Gea Haff
#46. Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
John Milton
#47. The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.
Ken Danby
#48. The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
Melvil Dewey
#49. I do not pretend to aught worth knowing, I do not pretend I could be a teacher To help or convert a fellow-creature. Then, too, I've neither lands nor gold, Nor the world's least pomp or honor hold - No dog would endure such a curst existence!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#50. It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.
Frederick Lenz
#51. A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.
Ellen Ochoa
#52. Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.
John Powell
#53. There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
Jonathan Shapiro
#54. Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
Ronald Reagan
#55. The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher-God complex.
Taylor Mali
#56. My own existence as a teacher is one of sustained epistemological demolition
Stephen Brookfield
#57. Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
Deyth Banger
#58. Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
Edward Abbey
#59. Do not trust a teacher that is unwilling to learn.
T.F. Hodge
#60. My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
Simon Callow
#61. I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.
Dana Goldstein
#62. I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.
Andrew Shue
#63. I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
John Madden
#64. I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.
Martha Stewart
#65. I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.
Boris Kodjoe
#66. I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.
D. B. Sweeney
#67. It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
Wendy Kopp
#68. I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.
Robert Pinsky
#69. I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
Henry Rollins
#70. My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.
James Franco
#71. Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. I would love to choreograph and dance around.
Misty Copeland
#72. Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
Sathya Sai Baba
#73. I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.
Kurt Wagner
#74. Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
Frederick Douglass
#75. Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.
Stephen Pagliuca
#76. I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.
Rick Riordan
#77. A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.
Bell Hooks
#78. ...the best in any profession is first a teacher
Gary Marx
#79. If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.
Tim Gunn
#80. Love. Is that so very important? You were a teacher, you ought to know. Is it?" "It's vital. If a child has it for the first ten years, hardly anything else matters. If he hasn't, then nothing does.
P.D. James
#81. The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.
Edwin Meese
#82. My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
Niklaus Wirth
#83. A teacher can change a life just with appreciation and love.
Debasish Mridha
#84. As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.
Philip Zimbardo
#85. A teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself.
Elizabeth George
#86. One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#87. That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#88. I never considered myself a trainer, I considered myself a teacher.
Ray Arcel
#89. Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Zi
#90. The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
Chris Van Allsburg
#91. As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
Niall Ferguson
#92. Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
Elie Wiesel
#93. My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.
Karen Joy Fowler
#94. I am a teacher. Pay close attention - this will be on the test. You don't wreck buildings. You don't take children hostage. And you don't threaten people with violence. Okay class dismissed. Looks like you fail!
Yoko
#95. The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.
David Brooks
#96. I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
Haruki Murakami
#97. You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.
Jeff Foxworthy
#98. As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.
Christopher Moore
#99. I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
Ellen Pompeo
#100. The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
T.D. Jakes
