Teacher Quotes · Page 82

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

— Henry David Thoreau

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

— Elizabeth Lesser

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

— Pat Conroy

Awkward moment when your teacher says your name and you look up to see everyone staring at you...

— Anonymous

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

— Calvin Trillin

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

— Mark Ruffalo

If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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

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

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

“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

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination…

— Anonymous

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

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

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice…

— Dalai Lama

... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers…

— John Barnes

“From My Mother’s Classroom I looked at her As she spoke Every word Each lesson Profound wisdom And valuable guidance I held…

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Not only is this teacher educating her children in violence, she also has to continuously escalate her own violence to keep control.…

— Arun Gandhi

[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own…

— Morris Kline

Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection…

— Whoopi Goldberg

A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing…

— Henry Giroux

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher…

— Niki Taylor

“If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If…

— Bill Wilson

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

— Andy Hargreaves

“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.”

— Mike Schmoker

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

— Michael Morpurgo

I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.

— Deborah Harkness

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

— Thomas Szasz

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

— John Henrik Clarke

Learning from a first-hand experience is a much better teacher than a text book!!

— Adaeze Don

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

— Mackenzie Astin

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

— Michael Bennet

The moment when teacher was not in the class and we act like a boss.

— Anonymous

When you get to class late and your teacher still isn't there.

— Anonymous

I have noticed that teachers get exciting confused with boring a lot.

— Sara Pennypacker

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

— Charles Kuralt

“Now the student has surpassed his teacher, Langdon thought. By several light-years.”

— Dan Brown