Quotes About Experience As A Teacher

#1. The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Frank McCourt

#2. It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.

Mark Stephens

#4. In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Edmund White

#5. No child is taught to kill, but he has to be taught to love, respect, honor and value, not only his own life, but the lives of his classmates, parents and teachers. He has to experience love and acceptance. He has to know his life has purpose and meaning. No amount of money can do that.

Cal Thomas

#6. Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.

Napoleon Hill

#7. Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

Ajahn Chah

#8. Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

Jose Ferreira

#9. Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.

Toni Sorenson

#10. I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

Francis Ford Coppola

#11. In the online math class, there was almost no meaningful student/teacher or student/student interaction. To equate this type of online learning with a real-world classroom experience is a major stretch.

Ian Lamont

#12. Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. Experience is the best teacher."... The primary and most obvious reason for this is that revelation is not over, God is constantly revealing himself to us in our experience.... Of

Dennis Linn

#14. Each person in your life is a teacher, each experience in your life is a lesson. Living is like looking into a mirror, every teacher is you.

L.J. Vanier

#15. The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

Jack Kerouac

#16. Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called life and taught by a teacher who is none other than self-experience only.

Anuj

#17. Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

Andy Andrews

#18. 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

#19. It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

Maria Montessori

#20. The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

Chogyam Trungpa

#21. Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

William James Mayo

#22. Experience is a thorough teacher ...

Mary Jane Holmes

#23. Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

Sakyong Mipham

#24. I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

Henry Rollins

#25. What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.

John C. Maxwell

#26. Pain is a teacher, as I have told you before. Most people fear it. We do not. We would never stop a child from touching a burning piece of wood. We would warn, but never prevent. Wisdom comes through listening to those with more experience. Only fools blunder through unnecessary pain.

Jeff Wheeler

#27. It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.

Julia Cameron

#28. Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

George Sarton

#29. There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher

Robin S. Sharma

#30. I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

Joss Whedon

#31. Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

William Ralph Inge

#32. How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Lorraine Toussaint

#33. Torbjorn (Hansen, Magnus Carlsen's first teacher) himself went from 2104 to 2204 in rating during the year he trained with Magnus. This reflects the experience I have had. One learns nearly as much from teaching others.

Simen Agdestein

#34. I'd always told myself that I deserve good things, that I was worthy, but if I ever believed it. You can't tell yourself anything. Your heart only believes what it feels, and experience is the best teacher.

Penelope Douglas

#35. Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

Howard G. Hendricks

#36. 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

#37. We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

David Warlick

#38. In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more.

Toni Sorenson

#39. Experience is the teacher of all things.

Gaius Julius Caesar

#40. I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

Kirby Larson

#41. Experience is the only teacher," Hey-Soos says. "Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don't listen to their parents, or people don't leave churches and do what the preacher tells them?

Chris Crutcher

#42. As I told you earlier, pain is a powerful teacher. To transcend pain, I had to first experience it. I wouldn't be where I am today without it,

Robin S. Sharma

#43. Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences ... But the lessons of experience are hidden.

Dan Millman

#44. Never trust a man who teaches about death
but yet had no real experience at all about it.

Toba Beta

#45. Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Kettering

#46. Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers ... Restlessness and discontent are vital things ... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#47. Experience is a great teacher.

John Legend

#48. Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Walter Savage Landor

#49. I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

Skeet Ulrich

#50. Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.

Nicky Gumbel

#51. Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.

Muni Natarajan

#52. Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

Piet Mondrian

#53. 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

#54. Don't fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become.

Toni Sorenson

#55. For many kids, a good teacher may be the most palpable form of honor they will ever experience.

David Denby

#56. Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Benjamin Franklin

#57. Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, then the lesson afterward.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#58. Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

Ann Landers