Famous Quotes
- The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
- William Irwin Thompson on Teacher
- The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
- Abdoulaye Wade on Teacher
- The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Horace Mann on Teacher
- The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
- Khalil Gibran on Teacher
- The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.
- Sheldon Jackson on Teacher
- 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.
- Mike Krzyzewski on Teacher
- The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
- Frederick William Robertson on Teacher
- 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.
- Amos Bronson Alcott on Teacher
- The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.
- Tucker Carlson on 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.
- Anatole France on Teacher
- The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
- Bertolt Brecht on Teacher
- Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
- Harvey Keitel on Teacher
- There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
- Berenice Abbott on Teacher
- 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.
- Robert Frost on Teacher
- There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.
- Tom Vilsack on Teacher
- There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.
- Mark Knopfler on Teacher
- There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
- Estelle Morris on Teacher
- There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
- David Puttnam on Teacher
- There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
- Allan Bloom on Teacher
- There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.
- Robert Sternberg on Teacher
- 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.
- Paul Twitchell on Teacher
- There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
- Jonathan Shapiro on Teacher
- There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
- Audre Lorde on Teacher
- There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'Connor on Teacher
- Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
- They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.
- Louis Farrakhan on Teacher
- This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
- William Glasser on Teacher
- This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Teacher
- Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
- Carter G. Woodson on Teacher
- Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Teacher
- Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
- Bjarne Stroustrup on Teacher
- Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz on Teacher
- To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
- Joseph Conrad on Teacher
- To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
- Arthur Holly Compton on Teacher
- To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
- William Hague on Teacher
- To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
- John Strachan on Teacher
- Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
- Harlan Coben on Teacher
- TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
- Fred W. Friendly on Teacher
- Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.
- Ellen Ochoa on Teacher
- Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.
- Brigitte Bardot on Teacher
- We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
- Major Owens on Teacher
- 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.
- William Glasser on Teacher
- 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.
- Maria Montessori on Teacher
- We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
- Donald Norman on Teacher
- We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
- Donna Shalala on Teacher
- We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
- George Farquhar on Teacher
- We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
- Yakov Smirnoff on Teacher
- We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
- James Carville on Teacher
- 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.
- Phyllis Diller on Teacher
- We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.
- Evan Thomas on Teacher
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