Student To Teacher Quotes

#1. Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. The failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach.

Kristin Hannah

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Teacher: Where is your homework? Student: I didn't do it because I didn't want to add to your already heavy workload.

Various

#6. 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

#7. Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Bill Gates

#8. In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

Natalie Goldberg

#9. It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

Frederick Lenz

#10. One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you cant read, its going to be hard to realize dreams; its going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read-you ought to listen to her.

George W. Bush

#11. I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

James Galway

#12. Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them [the students] unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.

April Greiman

#13. When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Sylvester Stallone

#14. We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us.

Max Tegmark

#15. The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or do whatever is necessary to help out more.

Frederick Lenz

#16. A teacher must be greater than his students; a student must aspire to be greater than his teacher.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.

William Osler

#18. The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

Lynn Flewelling

#19. An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

Frederick Lenz

#20. 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

#21. A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

Anna Nalick

#22. I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.

Meredith Brooks

#23. It brings tears of joy to a teacher's eye when the student becomes a great success.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

James Heckman

#25. I think I like you," I muttered, pressing my face to his muscled torso in a hug. I felt his heartbeat under my ear.
"I think I like you back.

L.J. Shen

#26. You have to be a good student before you can be a good teacher.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#28. Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.

Will Hermes

#29. 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

#30. The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.

Bryant McGill

#31. He believed that a teacher should stimulate and guide the student with questions, so that the student not only was exposed to the answer but remembered how the answer was reached.

Robert D. Milne

#32. What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

Paulo Coelho

#33. Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Jeanine Basinger

#34. 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

#35. The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

Julius Sumner Miller

#36. The building blocks of mathematical thinking are requisite for more advanced conceptualization. If a student is not ready to move on, then the teacher must take time to assist that learner.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#37. The Death of Money is an engrossing account of the massive stresses accumulating in the global financial system, especially since the 2008 financial crisis. Jim Rickards is a natural teacher. Any serious student of financial crises and their root causes needs to read this book.

John H. Makin

#38. 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

#39. When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

David Sedaris

#40. TEACHER
Let us begin. Repeat after me. I would like
STUDENT
I wud like
TEACHER
To feed your fingertips
STUDENT
To feed yur fingerteeps
TEACHER
To the wolverines.

Michael O'Donoghue

#41. I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else from a teacher or learn something else from a student, I learn something else from a parent. There's so much to know when you talk about education.

David Shuster

#42. When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.

Jeff Raz

#43. If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Idries Shah

#44. I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

John Philip Sousa

#45. This world is like a big classroom, and USA is the teacher, while other countries are the students, as one student tries to mess with the teacher, or does something really bad. The teacher shall teach him a nice lesson. Use your brain before you try to mess with the odds.

Barack Obama

#46. The student must be humbled to be trained by the teacher.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#47. I'll teach you how to come with a man inside you. Not a boy, Addison, a man.

Ella Frank

#48. When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

LouAnne Johnson

#49. In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

William Glasser

#50. Who is the student?
One who seeks to learn.
Who is the teacher?
One who seeks to learn more than others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#51. 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

#52. The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'

Wilbert J. McKeachie

#53. Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

Hyman Bass

#54. Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

Paulo Freire

#55. Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Herbert Simon

#56. Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life.

Santosh Kalwar

#57. A good student learns from his teacher.
A great student learns to teach himself.

A.P. Sweet

#58. As a mindfulness student once said to his teacher, "Every time I start to think about how I'm finally in the here and now, I realize the moment has already passed." The

Donald Altman

#59. The student asked the master,
"Teacher, what should I do to become great?"
the master replied:
Succeed where others have failed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#60. Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.

Takashi Murakami

#61. A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.

Pope Francis

#62. This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Rebecca Goldstein

#63. In order to establish a real teacher-student relationship it is necessary for us to give up all our preconceptions regarding that relationship and the condition of opening and surrender. Surrender means opening oneself completely, trying to get beyond fascination and expectation.

Chogyam Trungpa

#64. People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

Doug E. Fresh

#65. It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.

William C. Menninger

#66. The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are really going into the planes of light and not fooling themselves.

Frederick Lenz

#67. One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

Yo-Yo Ma

#68. A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

Bill Parcells

#69. It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not my topic I will find myself where I don't want to be, having trod a path I didn't want to take.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#70. You feel pretty ,manly to me," I breathed out, all jelly-legged with half-mast eyes.
"And you feel like a woman worthy of a fight, Ms.Greene.

L.J. Shen

#71. A math teacher's least favorite thing to hear from a student is "I get the concept, but I couldn't do the problems." Though the student doesn't know it, this is shorthand for "I don't get the concept.

Jordan Ellenberg

#72. It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.

Frederick Lenz

#73. A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.

Frederick Lenz

#74. My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

Ernest Gallo

#75. Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

Gary Larson

#76. I was never really cut out to be a student, I prefer to actually work and get a project done and learn that way- but I have a huge respect for good teachers and even enjoy teaching ... I am a conundrum!

Holly Golightly

#77. Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

Michael Bennet

#78. A student must be humbled to trained by teacher.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#79. The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Warren Buffett

#80. If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.

Sidney Sugarman

#81. Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course.

Henry Adams

#82. It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

Yip Man

#83. In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

Gary L. Francione

#84. The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

Nikolay Konstantinov

#85. 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

#86. I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

Erin Gruwell

#87. In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.

Frederick Lenz

#88. Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Marva Collins

#89. The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides.

George Polya

#90. It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in the world of enlightenment you have to find it, enter into it.

Frederick Lenz

#91. From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.

George Lucas

#92. Yoga is to find union - between mind and body, between the individual and her God, between our thoughts and the source of our thoughts, between teacher and student..

Elizabeth Gilbert

#93. If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you have to do is meditate on your Buddhist master and the light will come into your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#94. Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

Susan Mann

#95. Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first ...

Tanya R. Liverman

#96. I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.

Gayle Forman

#97. A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

Bruce Lee

#98. Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#99. To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Soren Kierkegaard

#100. School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school principals and administrators to allow them to create a strong ecosystem in our schools and support teachers and parents as well.

Shaheen Mistri