Famous Quotes

"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

Norman MacCaig on Teacher

More quotes about Teacher

• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

  Khalil Gibran on Teacher

• "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Teacher

• "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."

  Confucius on Teacher

• "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."

  Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

• "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."

  John Steinbeck on Teacher

More quotes by Norman MacCaig

• "I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."

• "All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."

• "And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."

• "And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."

• "However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird."