Top 100 Teacher Knowledge Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. No one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
#4. You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher?" "Oh, no!" Mrs. Carey remarked with a smile, "I am just a mother,
that's all! Good night.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#6. Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
John Dewey
#7. In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.
Frederick Lenz
#8. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.
Henry Miller
#9. The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.
Maria Montessori
#10. A teacher of knowledge and power gives you experiences in other dimensions. They show you that the universe is much bigger and more fascinating than you had ever imagined. They give you direct and immediate experiences in other realities.
Frederick Lenz
#11. What had I seen? Too much. What did I know? Only that knowledge carries a damned high price. Miss Wilcox, my teacher, had taught me so much. Why had she never taught me that?
Jennifer Donnelly
#12. An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
Frederick Lenz
#13. The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles ...
William Osler
#14. Failure is our best teacher but fear of failure is our worst enemy.
Debasish Mridha
#15. 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
#16. Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.
Betty Edwards
#17. To be a teacher, an example, a leader, to learn language, science, and navigation, for with greater responsability one must have greater knowledge and education.
J.M. Bardsley
#18. 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
#19. The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle.
#20. Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars ... that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
Sydney J. Harris
#23. The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
Seymour Papert
#24. Action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
Idries Shah
#25. I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity to thank teachers who have influenced me. I encourage everyone to seize opportunities to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#26. You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.
Swami Vivekananda
#27. joined one institute in Patel Nagar to accomplish this goal; my English Teacher was strict, but she did not have much knowledge.
Yogesh Saini
#28. Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others. Activity flows from this virtue. Teachers who possess it fulfill the duties of their profession with enthusiasm, love, courage, and perseverance.
Basil Moreau
#29. The teachers of our law, and to propose
What might improve my knowledge or their own.
John Milton
#30. The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.
Stephen Brookfield
#31. In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.
Frederick Lenz
#32. 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
#33. Add books to your circle of friends: they will enrich your life; take you places you've never been; give you perspective you never knew existed; guide your path to knowledge like a faithful teacher.
J Tan
#34. All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.
David Emerald Womeldorff
#35. Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.
Idries Shah
#36. As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.
Debasish Mridha
#37. A classroom is like a Greenhouse where the teacher must provide essential amenities like knowledge and life-skill with patience and empathy, control temperatures and provide adequate ventilation to release unwanted energies for everyone and everything to bloom.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#38. I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.
Truth Devour
#39. I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
Leo Buscaglia
#40. With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection.
Frederick Lenz
#41. Adversities are the best teacher and challenges are the best motivator.
Debasish Mridha
#42. Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.
Frederick Lenz
#43. An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world.
Frederick Lenz
#44. Around 2am as I was performing misogi, I suddenly forgot all the martial techniques I had ever learned. The techniques of my teachers appeared completely new. Now they were vehicles for the cultivation of life, knowledge, and virtue, not devices to throw people with.
Morihei Ueshiba
#46. In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.
Thiruvalluvar
#47. An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.
Frederick Lenz
#48. The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
Bertolt Brecht
#49. The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.
Laozi
#50. Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#51. The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.
Stuart Sherman
#52. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#54. Our task is to learn, to become God-like through knowledge. We know so little. You are here to be my teacher. I have so much to learn. By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others. I
Brian L. Weiss
#55. 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
#56. A Great Teacher is like a fountain; she draws from the still, deep waters of personal growth and professional knowledge to serve others from her abundant overflow.
Wynn Godbold
#57. True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.
Robert Grudin
#58. Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
Vijay Singh
#59. Many Karate teachers teach a watered down style - no hip action and no depth of punching - so it is easy to say that these teachers have no depth to their knowledge. You are what your teacher is, and if he knows a lot, you should be able to demonstrate this knowledge.
Higa Yuchoku
#60. The laborious pastor, the fervent minister, the ardent evangelist, the faithful teacher, the powerful intercessor, can all trace the birth of their zeal to the sufferings they endured through sin, and the knowledge they thereby attained of its evil nature.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#61. The Master said, 'If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.
Anonymous
#62. Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.
Don Tapscott
#63. Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.
Frederick Lenz
#64. A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.
Christopher Pike
#65. 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
#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. 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
#69. Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
Deepak Chopra
#70. William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.
Jill Ker Conway
#71. The best teacher kindles the fire of knowledge with appreciation and love of students whose hearts so eagerly desire to learn.
Debasish Mridha
#72. Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.
Stuart Wilde
#73. We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.
Frederick Lenz
#74. If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
H. P. Blavatsky
#75. The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#76. I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
Margaret Spellings
#77. Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.
Kenneth Arrow
#78. The (bible) teacher predicts and defines the route and pace of the spiritual growth of his students. This is because it is to the degree of the knowledge of CHRIST in a disciple that we can measure his spiritual growth.
Christian Michael
#79. We would never have gained the knowledge if it wasn't meant to be used." Jo was in teacher mode, and so we began to dance.
Honeysuckle Pear
#80. If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
Lord Chesterfield
#81. Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
Confucius
#82. Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.
Pope Benedict XVI
#83. It is ok to be a teacher but it is great to be an educator.
Debasish Mridha
#84. I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.
Frederick Lenz
#85. Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life.
Debasish Mridha
#86. A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.
Laozi
#87. Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.
Eleanora Duse
#88. Not the formal schooling but the journey through the life is the best teacher.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Know this! They (false prophets) are the judgment of God upon a wicked defiled people who although they have a knowledge of God they do not want him. And so God sends them the teachers that they themselves desire.
Paul Washer
#90. I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.
Robert Kiyosaki
#91. A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.
Fulton J. Sheen
#93. If a teacher teaches you what to think, but not how to think, it is not a true education.
Debasish Mridha
#94. Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Confucius
#95. The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#96. 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
#97. I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners. I believe that effective teaching is often the spark that ignites the imagination, possibility, and promise for learners, including the teacher.
Barbara Paterson
#98. What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
Helen Keller
#99. The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.
Mark Stephens
#100. Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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