Top 100 Quotes About Teacher
#2. A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini
#3. When a teacher is paying extra attention to your child, you believe that it's because you raised such an exceptional kid, one that stands out head and shoulders above the rest of her booger-eating friends.
Drew Magary
#4. I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.
Judith Warner
#5. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#6. Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
Huston Smith
#7. I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.
Vittorio Grigolo
#8. To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Gordon Brown
#9. English teacher: Sam, form a sentence using the word aftermath. Sam: 'I always feel sleepy after math class.' ***
Various
#10. I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'
Julia Cameron
#11. As a kid, I had the worst mile time ever. Our gym teacher made us run the mile a few times a year for something called the Presidential Fitness Test. I'd huff and puff and wonder why the hell President Bush cared how fast I could run laps around the playground. I always came in dead last.
Miranda Kenneally
#12. To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
William Hague
#13. Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.
Andy Andrews
#14. People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.
Paul Smith
#16. I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured and ended up turning to cooking. It was an accident but the happiest one of my life.
Gordon Ramsay
#17. I went to Catholic school, and there was this teacher, a Brother, who saw I could go either way, good or bad. He took an interest in me and got me to do a play. I got hooked on acting, and it gave me something constructive to do. I had a lot of energy.
William Forsythe
#18. You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.
Diogenes
#20. I have learned so many things over the long years," he whispered ... "I've taken tribute from sovereigns and witnessed the end of empires. But you are my best teacher.
Thea Harrison
#21. I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread ... stale and dry.
Loretta Lynn
#22. Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
Tertullian
#23. [The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.
Bunker Roy
#24. My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.
Billy Baldwin
#25. The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
Maria Montessori
#26. The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
Joyce Cary
#27. He was the Teacher, the world was his students, and class was about to begin.
James Patterson
#28. I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#29. Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
George Steiner
#30. My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death ...
Osamu Tezuka
#31. Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.
Noel DeJesus
#32. Let your Teacher be Love itself.
Rumi
#34. I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.
Nick Bantock
#35. My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.
Guy Davenport
#36. Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
Confucius
#37. Who is your teacher? If you give only one name, then you are not a good student! And who is a good student? He is whose teacher is everyone and everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
John Taylor Gatto
#39. I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#40. Lesson learned from nature cannot be taught by teacher.
Kishore Bansal
#41. Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.
Goliarda Sapienza
#43. If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.
James Hilton
#44. I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.
Malorie Blackman
#46. What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
William Glasser
#47. As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.
Sondra Perl
#48. We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.
Richard Riley
#49. My teacher sent me all over the world to talk about meditation - Europe, all over America, Canada. I would drive thousands of miles, travel, all at my own expense, to do this.
Frederick Lenz
#50. The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
Paulo Freire
#51. Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.
Jack Kornfield
#52. If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.
Tony Danza
#53. I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.
Kay Granger
#54. We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.
Richard Bach
#55. I feel that my main responsibility as a teacher isn't to convey facts, but to rekindle that lost enthusiasm for asking questions.
Max Tegmark
#56. The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.
Randy Travis
#57. I'm leaving at 3, you're leaving at 3..."
- Random Teacher who walked into Nick's and my action figure video.
B. Lloyd Reese
#58. Looking for a great teacher who can tell you what will happen in the future? Ask the ancient ruins what will happen!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.
Frederick Lenz
#60. I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Woodrow Wilson
#61. Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
Bruce Coville
#62. Emma is just a distraction. A shiny new toy that I can't have, so I want her. Fuck, do I ever want her. - William Honor (Honor Thy Teacher)
Teresa Mummert
#63. I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead?
Thank you. Anton.
Ben Goldacre
#64. The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers.
David Sedaris
#65. My head whips towards the sound of Breanna's sweet voice. At the corner, she waves to our English teacher [Ms Whitlock] then starts to our classroom.
Katie McGarry
#66. He (a teacher at school) was the epitome of the Oxonian code of "effortless superiority" whereby to be seen trying really hard to achieve something was in many ways worse than actually failing it.
John Cleese
#67. The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am.
Lola Kirke
#68. A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught,
becomes one with them,
learns more from them than he teaches them.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.
Boyd K. Packer
#70. Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level.
Daniel Marques
#71. I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.
Billy Graham
#72. The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.
Tad Devine
#74. Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.
Frederick Lenz
#75. Sukhvinder is easily discouraged and needs to have more faith in her abilities. There! You see? Your teacher is saying you dont try hard enough, Sukhvinder.
J.K. Rowling
#76. Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.
Joko Beck
#77. Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?'
I thought about a humanities teacher I'd worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I'd worked with in Germany. I said, 'I think most schools have a resident idiot.
Tucker Elliot
#78. Liveliness in a teacher does not mean that students will be lively.
Sam Pickering
#79. My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.
Heather McDonald
#80. My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.
Ilsa J. Bick
#81. If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Dave Chappelle
#82. Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even to a greater extent than his father; for his father gave him life in this world, while his teacher instructs him in wisdom, secures for him life in the world to come.
Maimonides
#83. In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction.
Lilian Katz
#84. I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled in the arts. So that recognition I credit for my growing interest in art that continued to evolve later on.
Paul Smith
#85. Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.
Frederick Lenz
#86. My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.
Michael Bennet
#87. I'm pretty much using media all day because my school is online. It's sort of like homeschooling but also like going to real school - you log in and do all your work and email it to the teacher, and we have a teacher who oversees us on set.
Nolan Gould
#88. I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.
Chic Murray
#89. If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Anonymous
#90. I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was an awkward child and the family wanted me to be graceful. When I found out I liked to dance and people seemed to like to watch me, I was determined to go places.
Vera-Ellen
#91. A teacher instructs;
a student absorbs.
A book is a companion;
a good one, a messiah.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#92. If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target
Damian Green
#93. No matter what, just let them write every day,even if you're not sure what to teach, just let them write. They'll do fine." -Lisa Cleaveland's words for her long-term substitute teacher.
Lisa Cleaveland
#95. Everybody got to write you - but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. At graduation you got to collect your teacher's pens and your parents' pens and you got your own pen.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#96. My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing
Leopold Fechtner
#97. Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.
Mickey Rourke
#98. You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.
Iyanla Vanzant
#99. I'm twenty-four, a first grade teacher, have a Yorkie named Pedro, a goldfish named Fish, have never had sex, or a serious boyfriend, and I'm the town lesbian who pukes when she sees a pussy. Nothing really to be jealous of at all.
H.J. Bellus
#100. Life is like a confused teacher ... first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson
Drake
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