Quotes About Teacher

#1. 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

#2. While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Samuel Dash

#3. Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

William Arthur Ward

#4. Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

Pierce Brown

#5. The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

John Dewey

#6. Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Confucius

#7. A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

Daniel Goleman

#8. When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Mark Twain

#9. I feel like I am floating in plasma
I need a teacher or a lover
I need someone to risk being involved with me.
I am so vain
and I am so masochistic.
How can they coexist?

Francesca Woodman

#10. My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth.

Kadir Nelson

#11. In 1850, four-fifths of New York's eleven thousand teachers were women, yet two-thirds of the state's $800,000 in teacher salaries was paid to men. It was not unusual for male teachers to earn twice as much as their female coworkers.

Dana Goldstein

#12. SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN
GURGANI:
The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching.

Idries Shah

#13. I trail away into silence. I've just shared details of my condom use with my son's teacher. I'm not sure how that happened.

Sophie Kinsella

#14. A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

Steve Almond

#15. I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

Megan Park

#16. A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.

Debasish Mridha

#18. My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

Al Franken

#19. Well, David Bayles, to be exact - who began piano studies with a Master. After a few months' practice, David lamented to his teacher, "But I can hear the music so much better in my head than I can get out of my fingers." To which the Master replied, "What makes you think that ever changes?

David Bayles

#20. Suffering is my teacher. If I pay attention to it instead of trying to numb it out, maybe it can lead me to its root.

Michelle Colston

#21. A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.

Sarah Sutton

#23. A teacher's shadow can hover for life.

Mitch Albom

#24. At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

Omar Dorsey

#25. I build the future of this nation, one child at a time. I help them shape their dreams and teach them how to fly. From Just a Teacher in the Kindle book Classroom Confessions by The Prophet of Life

The Prophet Of Life

#26. A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.

Giovanni Ruffini

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#30. Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

Huston Smith

#31. I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.

Vittorio Grigolo

#32. 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

#33. English teacher: Sam, form a sentence using the word aftermath. Sam: 'I always feel sleepy after math class.' ***

Various

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.

Paul Smith

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

Diogenes

#43. Teacher gonna give me a lesson?" Her

Lauren Gilley

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. [The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Bunker Roy

#48. My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

Billy Baldwin

#49. The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

Maria Montessori

#50. The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Joyce Cary

#51. He was the Teacher, the world was his students, and class was about to begin.

James Patterson

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

Noel DeJesus

#56. Let your Teacher be Love itself.

Rumi

#57. You're such a school teacher.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#58. I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.

Nick Bantock

#59. 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

#60. Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

Confucius

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. Lesson learned from nature cannot be taught by teacher.

Kishore Bansal

#65. Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

Goliarda Sapienza

#66. The look of a smug teacher is priceless.

Tucker Elliot

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. It is important to recognize guilt as the temporary teacher it is.

Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

#70. What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

William Glasser

#71. As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.

Sondra Perl

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

Jack Kornfield

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. time is the best teacher; patience is the best lesson

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#91. A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning.

Raheel Farooq

#92. The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#93. If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Alan Sugar

#94. You don't need the help of politicians to be a good teacher, Peter.

Audrey Magee

#95. Let me tell you, Mr. teacher when you say you'll make me right, in five hundred years of fighting not one Indian turned white

Johnny Cash

#96. 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

#97. And old Padre Jose telling him to read as much as he could for the world was open only to those who could read and this skill was the most precious gift that any teacher could give.
-Istak

F. Sionil Jose

#98. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

Gautama Buddha

#99. Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion.
Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#100. 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