Top 100 Quotes About Teacher Is
#1. A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
Herbie Hancock
#2. The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Ralph Nader
#4. A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
#7. I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.
Marva Collins
#8. The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
Seymour Papert
#9. [About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.
I.L. Peretz
#10. A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be laughed at. You need to sense how small we all are.
Frederick Lenz
#11. I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator.
Pierre Boulez
#12. The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.
Frederick Lenz
#13. The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.
Derrick Jensen
#14. Education at a deep level means to 'lead out' what is trying to be born from within. The job of a true teacher is to help awaken the inner pupil that has its own way of being and unique way of perceiving
the world.
Michael Meade
#15. The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.
George Benson
#16. On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'
Jeff Kinney
#17. The best teacher is experience. Find the educational in every situation.
Bryan Cranston
#18. An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution of the individual.
Frederick Lenz
#19. The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
H.L. Mencken
#20. If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
Miyamoto Musashi
#21. The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.
Wanda Landowska
#22. The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles ...
William Osler
#23. This," Mercy said, her tone that of a wise teacher, "is celebratory drunkenness. Witnessed at times when men rejoice in their own prowess."
Riley glanced over his shoulder to grin
actually grin
at Mercy. "I gave you multiple pupcubs. I have prowess.
Nalini Singh
#24. You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
Andy Hargreaves
#25. I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.
Warren Zevon
#27. A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
Howard Nemerov
#28. A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.
Julius Lester
#29. Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am.
Jill Biden
#30. The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
Walter Raleigh
#31. A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#32. The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
Mary Augusta Ward
#33. The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.
Bell Hooks
#34. 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
#35. How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
John Dewey
#36. 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
#37. I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.
Rumi
#38. The teacher is transmitting pure awareness and consciousness.
Frederick Lenz
#39. The best teacher is very interactive.
Bill Gates
#40. The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
Daniel Pennac
#41. In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.
Conan O'Brien
#42. "Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.
Frederick Lenz
#44. Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.
Tony Danza
#45. 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
#46. My own existence as a teacher is one of sustained epistemological demolition
Stephen Brookfield
#47. 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
#48. Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. 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
#50. One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
Alan Bennett
#51. I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Carl Rogers
#52. The best teacher is he who kindles the fire of imaginations and does not fill minds with only information.
Debasish Mridha
#53. 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
#54. You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.
Jay Mohr
#55. The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you. What is most important is that the student uses that power intelligently and wisely.
Frederick Lenz
#56. The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#57. 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
#58. 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
#60. 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
#61. [The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.
Bunker Roy
#62. I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.
Vittorio Grigolo
#63. 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
#64. A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini
#65. What you want to get as a teacher is not an email or a Facebook post that says, 'I learned so much about headstands in your class'. What you want to get is 'I learned so much about myself and my life in your class'.
Judith Hanson Lasater
#66. I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours." It's not Ford versus Chevy. But it's rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#68. One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
Andrew Cohen
#69. How can one know who his spiritual teacher is? ... His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart sees a spiritual Master, if it is overwhelmed with joy, then there is every probability that that spiritual Master is the right one for the seeker.
Sri Chinmoy
#70. Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.
Evan Esar
#71. People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.
Israel Gelfand
#72. The fourth duty of a teacher is to dissuade his students from evil ways with care and caution, with sympathy and not with rebuke and harshness, because in that case it destroys the veil of awe and encourages disobedience.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#73. I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
Alfred North Whitehead
#74. A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.
Frederick Lenz
#75. The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
Felix Adler
#76. A good teacher is someone you're willing to share your ugliest, roughest work with and who doesn't make you feel ashamed or stupid.
Felicia Day
#77. I believe that in this way the teacher is the prophet of the true god and the usherer in of the true kingdom of god.
Kevin Swanson
#78. I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.
Tony Benn
#79. The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
K. Patricia Cross
#80. As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,
all of his works are zero.
When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead,
then the work of the Teacher is over.
Kabir
#81. Not everyone who attains Self-realization can make a reliable guide. I have been saying "he," but this is not a role for men alone. My own teacher is my mother's mother.
Anonymous
#82. A teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself.
Elizabeth George
#83. My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
Niklaus Wirth
#84. A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.
Bell Hooks
#85. Ibn El-Arabi wrote, 'The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself
Idries Shah
#86. The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Elbert Hubbard
#87. A wise teacher is a keen and true student of absolute beauty and truth, and he searches everywhere for them in nature with all his heart
Sadegh M. Angha
#89. We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
Elliot W. Eisner
#90. That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
Ed O'Neill
#91. The first thing, of course, is to find a vacancy, a place where a teacher is
wanted, and the second thing is to make the school officials believe you are just the person for
the position.
Thomas E. Sanders
#92. It's a bad dream: my English teacher is standing naked at the foot of this slightly lumpy bed, clutching a pair of not-quite-white underpants in his hand, studying me with this creepy look on his face, the one he gets when he's reading aloud in class and wants us to think he's moved by the passage.
Tom Perrotta
#93. The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
(Analects 2.11)
Confucius
#94. The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student's inward teacher is ignored ... we can speak to the teacher within our students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.
Parker J. Palmer
#96. The best teacher is the one who teaches you how to be your own teacher!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
David Bergen
#98. A teacher is held to a higher standard than a student, and a student is held to a higher standard than an ignoramus.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Sidney Hook
#100. With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.
Joko Beck
