Top 100 Quotes About Best Teachers
#2. The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.
Kate Betts
#3. In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and pay them more - which would help children the most. It has decided to hire every teacher it can get its hands on and pay them less.
Malcolm Gladwell
#4. If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.
Michael Bennet
#5. Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
Sonny Perdue
#7. The best teachers are those that can influence even the poorest of all learners.
Kim Panti
#8. Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.
Gideon Glick
#9. Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.
Ujas Soni
#10. Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Morley Safer
#11. The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
Tullian Tchividjian
#12. It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers.
Michael Gove
#13. Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
Mohnish Pabrai
#14. Books tap the wisdom of our species
the greatest minds, the best teachers
from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
Carl Sagan
#15. My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.
Kelly Cutrone
#17. The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.
Mardy Grothe
#18. The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.
Tom Chatfield
#19. A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.
Paulo Coelho
#20. There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
Miroslav Vitous
#21. I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.
Kimberly Quinn
#22. I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
#23. The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#24. Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.
Taylor Mali
#25. Yes, I think you'll find that all the best teachers are old bats.
Richard Peck
#26. The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.
John Kline
#27. to teach is the best way to learn, but that the imperfect are the best teachers of the imperfect.
George MacDonald
#28. We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.
Jon Porter
#29. The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
Taylor Mali
#30. I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.
Bellamy Young
#31. The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.
Joseph Bruchac
#32. Our guides, we pretend, must be sinless: as if those were not often the best teachers who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes.
George Eliot
#33. We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
Bob Filner
#35. For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
Quintilian
#36. The best teachers are the best storytellers.
Frank Smith
#37. My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
Anne Lamott
#38. Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.
Mark Kostabi
#39. Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
James Anthony Froude
#40. I find mistakes are often our best teachers. Consequences leave a more lasting impression than a mere lecture, don't you think?" "Yes, sir. Just lectures don't usually hurt as much. Except for those history lectures. They were pretty hard to endure.
Jackie Castle
#41. Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.
Peter Norvig
#42. I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.
Beverly Cleary
#43. I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.
Markus Zusak
#44. To write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
Mary Oliver
#45. The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.
Grant Teaff
#46. Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear
Pat Pattison
#47. The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Alexandra K.Trenfor
#48. Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers.
Christiane Northrup
#49. I trained and worked really hard all my life in dance classes. I always fell into the shadows of my mother, and it was hard for me to really realize that I had done the work. Yes, she took me to the best teachers, but I did the work.
Vivian Nixon
#50. My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
Brian Greene
#51. The best teachers become the best teachers by being their own best students.
Laurie Gray
#52. I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers.
Edmund Marlowe
#53. Mistakes in judgment are the best teachers in the world, and if you choose to learn from them then you will begin to trust yourself and understand that, correct or incorrect you were decisive and moved on.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#55. If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
Dalai Lama XIV
#56. Improving the skills of HR colleagues. The best learners are also teachers. Investing in building the skills of HR colleagues requires individuals to be clear and disciplined about a topical area, tool, or technology.
David Ulrich
#57. Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.
Richard Rohr
#58. Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.
Julia Glass
#59. Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Maria Callas
#60. Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
Diane Ravitch
#61. Let's start simple - what's your verb?" Carl asks. "What do you mean, my verb?" "A nurse nurses, teachers teach and preachers preach. If you could only choose one verb to describe what you do best, what is it?
Ian Bull
#63. The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches
and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair ... toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.
Phil Vischer
#64. We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.
Eugene Cernan
#66. Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he was now quitting school. It was the best day of her life, she replied. With unexpected politeness he bowed, thanked her, and said, likewise.
Carsten Jensen
#67. But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
Mark Kennedy
#68. The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#69. John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.
Mark Sheppard
#70. The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.
Malala Yousafzai
#71. They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!
George Takei
#72. There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.
Graham Coxon
#73. The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#74. No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests
Dorothy H Cohen
#75. In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
Prince Andrew
#76. From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.
George Lucas
#77. The best-remembered teachers are the tough ones, who discipline our intellects for the longest journeys.
Annis Pratt
#78. If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school.
Kym Whitley
#79. Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage
Harper Lee
#80. At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
Ralph Allen
#81. I encourage students to check out different styles of yoga and different teachers even within one system. Seek the teacher that inspires you, and practice the yoga that makes you feel the best. You'll then find the authentic practice for your life and path.
David F. Swensen
#82. I'll take a game of cards to stitchery any day. My brothers are shrewd, bordering on thieves when it comes to their cards - the best kind of teachers to have. Last
Mary E. Pearson
#84. There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#86. My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my entire life, been surrounded by teachers, and because of that I've had a tremendous respect for what teachers can do, the power that they can have.
Michelle Rhee
#87. Obviously, things work best when parents and teachers are helping kids to become good people - and, better yet, when they're actively supporting one another's efforts.
Alfie Kohn
#88. She began to study with a teacher of teachers, whom they brought for that purpose from the city of Mompox, and who died unexpectedly two weeks later, and she continued for several years with the best musician at the seminary, whose gravedigger's breath distorted her arpeggios.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#89. Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.
Richard LaGravenese
#90. I have become distrustful of teachings and learning, and I have little faith in words that come to us from teachers. But, very well, my friend - I am ready to hear this new teaching, although I believe in my heart that I have already tasted the best fruit of it.
Hermann Hesse
#91. The best learners ... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.
Stephen Brookfield
#92. Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.
Gregory Benford
#93. It is very good to see thousands of new teachers, so that with our thoughts, we can gradually change the world -send peace to the world. That's the best contribution to world peace-first the students should find their peace, and then they share with the other students.
Dharma Mittra
#94. If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.
David McCullough
#95. The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.
Malala Yousafzai
#96. Duty is the best and wisest of all teachers.
Alan Bradley
#97. Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.
Leonard Boswell
#98. The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.
Howard Gardner
#99. Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
Charles Kuralt
#100. History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.
Richelle Mead
