Teacher Quotes

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

A good teacher is a determined person.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.