Teacher Quotes
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“Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the "white sails" of the Chesapeake were bound, you began, I see, to gauge the wretchedness of the slave, not by his hunger and want, not by his lashes and toil, but by the cruel and blighting death which gathers over his soul.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine. He must not impose his student to fit a lifeless pattern, a preformulation.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Remember, I am no teacher; I can merely be a signpost for a traveler who is lost. It is up to you to decide on the direction.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
“teachers who pander to minority students by turning their courses into rap sessions and ethnic navel-gazing exercises capture their interest and allegiance.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.
Quote by -Tom Brokaw
I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
Quote by -Quentin Blake
“Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.”
Quote by -Helen de Keller
“This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of the board of education. The board is afraid of the parents. The parents are afraid of the children. The children are afraid of nothing!”
Quote by -Milton Berle
“One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.”
Quote by -Milton Berle
“Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.”
Quote by -Milton Berle
"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."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands."
Quote by -Brigitte Bardot
"I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you."
Quote by -Fred Rogers
"The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher."
Quote by -George Muller
"I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk."
Quote by -John Fahey
"Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.
Quote by -Lenny Bruce
I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty – at least for me.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
The students at our universities have ceased as completely as their teachers to enshrine the hopes and ideals of the nation.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'
Quote by -Bill Gates
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
Quote by -Bill Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Quote by -Bill Gates
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Quote by -Bill Gates
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction"
Quote by -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.
Quote by -Aristotle
Whatever career you may choose for yourself – doctor, lawyer, teacher – let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
Providence so often uses men and institutions to accomplish a purpose.
Quote by -Booker T Washington
Ceasing to do evil, cultivating the good, purifying the heart: this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
Quote by -Buddha