Teacher Quotes
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style
It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.
Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.
Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.
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.
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.
I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.
I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.
I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.
There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.
You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.
A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
