Browse our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous Teacher sayings and Teacher Quotes - Chapter 2
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
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.
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
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.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
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.
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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 had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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.
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.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
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.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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.

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