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A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
I touch the future. I teach.
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
A good teacher is a determined person.
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
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.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
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.
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.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
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.
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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