Top 100 Quotes About Great Teachers
#1. There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.
Joshua Bell
#2. Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.
Todd Whitaker
#4. Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Maria Callas
#5. Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.
Julie Andrews
#6. Osho is one of India's greatest mystics ... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.
Kabir Bedi
#7. I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.
Jennifer Carpenter
#8. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good.
Swami Vivekananda
#9. What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious
Joseph Epstein
#10. 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
#11. Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.
Melissa Breen
#12. The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching and the status of great teachers.
Ken Robinson
#13. The problem doesn't lie with the great teachers. Great teachers strive to create linchpins. The problem lies with the system that punishes artists and rewards bureaucrats instead. Here
Seth Godin
#14. There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shining stars in the school will teach you how small you are and how comical to own an ego!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?
Narendra Modi
#16. One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.
Danny Meyer
#17. I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#18. I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.
Meryl Streep
#19. Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.
Virginia McKenna
#20. Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.
Bill Gates
#21. My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way ...
Jeff Goldblum
#22. Finding great training, I think, is number one. I did a lot of research and found really great teachers, and it just takes - I took a year off from school and did independent studies so that I could devote all of my time to it. But I think that training is the key, definitely, and it's not a sport.
Misty Copeland
#23. I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.
Alfred Doblin
#24. You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.
Eli Broad
#25. Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why
Seth Godin
#26. Rather than always impose your will,
allow men to learn from their mistakes.
Great failures make great teachers;
success enables one to forget some things
a failure cannot afford to.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, 'Look at these weird drama club kids.' But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way.
Keith Stanfield
#28. Great teachers who are faithful to God's Word are a blessing to God's church.
Anonymous
#29. The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.
Henri Nouwen
#30. I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne.
Carolyn Kizer
#31. The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
Daniel Berrigan
#32. If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists -- magicians par excellence.
Lawren Leo
#33. Great teachers in the world include "Why". !t can help you assess and access your wanderings over the needed span of problem, and to dig out the solutions from depths.
Priyavrat Thareja
#34. Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
Andy Rooney
#35. Good teachers get fired; great teachers, killed--Socrates, Christ, and Giordano Bruno.
Alan W. Powers
#36. As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.
David Call
#37. 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
#38. Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.
N. T. Wright
#39. Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.
Paul Brunton
#40. The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.
Pat Conroy
#41. Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.
David McCullough
#42. True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.
Morgan Wootten
#43. When you study great teachers ... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
William Glasser
#44. I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers.
Brian Lindstrom
#45. I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#46. Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.
Marv Levy
#47. In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
Peter Matthiessen
#48. All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.
Wayne Dyer
#49. Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
Wendy Kopp
#50. Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.
Frederick Lenz
#51. I heard great teachers say: "Give what you have need of." I need love, so I will give love.
E'yen A. Gardner
#52. The great teachers believe in the growth of the intellect and talent, and they are fascinated with the process of learning.
Carol S. Dweck
#53. We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.
Andy Hargreaves
#54. Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.
Evelyn Underhill
#55. If there are no great teachers, how can we expect a great future?
Debasish Mridha
#56. Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
Ken Robinson
#57. Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in
redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.
Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel
#58. Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
Richard Hamming
#59. I got to thinking that the world would be a better place if they gave medals to great teachers rather than just soldiers who kill their enemies in wars.
Matthew Quick
#60. Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
Betty Buckley
#61. Great teachers create space for learning and invite people into that space.
Peter M. Senge
#62. Great teachers should be paid like doctors or corporate attorneys. I worry about what will happen to our economy and our democracy if we don't start to take teachers' jobs seriously.
Ninive Clements Calegari
#63. If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.
Anne Lamott
#64. When all good and great teachers die, ignorance will awake and teach so well, with an understandable vigor, and all students of ignorance will do all things because of ignorance, with an unthinkable joy and vigor!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#65. Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.
Taylor Mali
#66. Great teachers are precious. Lousy teachers cause damage that lasts forever. We need to reorganize our schools to free the great teachers from tests and reports and busywork, and to expel the lousy
Seth Godin
#67. All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over & over, in whatever language, at whatever time. All have said, simply: Give up weak attractors for strong attractors.
David Hawkins
#69. Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students to higher levels of excellence. They shun mere conformity and expect their students to think and perform to their ever-increasing potential.
Oliver DeMille
#70. Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.
Oliver DeMille
#71. As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life ... Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities ...
William Alexander Percy
#73. Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.
Sherman Alexie
#74. Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.
Frederick Lenz
#75. I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps.
Michael Bennet
#76. My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
Condoleezza Rice
#77. Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.
Susan Cheever
#78. There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that? People have their things, but why be rigid with any education when you can take things from here and take things from there?
Johnny Depp
#79. The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.
Grant Teaff
#81. I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#82. I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
Julia Roberts
#83. Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
Wendy Kopp
#84. Great Teachers are passionate and compassionate - they have a powerful personality to engage every mind in the classroom. They are never forgotten.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#86. Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#87. I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.
Lyle Lovett
#88. the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Timothy 4:3).
Vincent Cheung
#89. Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.
Jamie Oliver
#90. 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
#91. I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically active and also passionate about the same things that I was interested in. It was a great match for me.
Stephen Beal
#92. Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set Teachers Lounge up.
Ted Alexandro
#93. There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
Alice Von Hildebrand
#94. Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.
Andy Hargreaves
#95. Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.
Alfred Adler
#96. If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts.
Rajiv Mehrotra
#97. Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush Limbaugh
#98. Good students pay attention to their teachers;
great students teach themselves.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.
Eknath Easwaran
#100. I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
Emma Stone
