There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
“The first thing, of course, is to find a vacancy, a place where a teacher is wanted, and the second thing is… — Thomas E. Sanders Copy Share Image
I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face… — Irina Tweedie Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Suppose you endow a charity, or university. You could put your name on it, but you could also endow it in honor… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher,… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me.… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of -… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
I am in love with my teacher, he has thought me a lot of stuffs and still been teaching me a lot… — Bismark Frimpong Copy Share Image
I kind of slept through school. I wasn't engaged at all. My exercise books were empty at the end of the year.… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When I used to go to school, the teachers used to say to my mum, 'Hector looks like he's going to a… — Hector Bellerin Copy Share Image
Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this.… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games… — Mikey Way Copy Share Image
Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers,… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image