Teacher Quotes

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.