Teacher Quotes · Page 45

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

— Niall Ferguson

It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.

— Grigor Dimitrov

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

— Anne Hathaway

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

— Simon Newcomb

If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

— Michael Bennet

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

— Julie London

That awkward moment when you confidently say the wrong answer aloud in class.

— Anonymous

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

— Amartya Sen

The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions,…

— Frederick Lenz

The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring…

— Julius Sumner Miller

“In this class you need to take sometime to learn from your teacher's experience or you won't be able to win against…

— Yūsei Matsui

That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm…

— Adrian Gonzalez

An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard…

— Frederick Lenz

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn…

— Louis L'Amour

My parents were very traditional Nigerians who wanted doctor, lawyer, teacher [children], but when I actually had a dream and I presented…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits…

— Pema Chodron

It is very important that children learn from their fathers and mothers how to love one another- not in the school, not…

— Mother Teresa

I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have…

— Elif Batuman

My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I…

— Deborah Mailman

Why don't men become primary teachers? Partly, I suppose, because the pay is so insulting; but then it is for all teachers,…

— Harry Enfield

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have…

— George Polya

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture…

— Plutarch

I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more…

— Georg Solti

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

— Mason Cooley

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

— Don Cheadle

Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.

— Paul Smith

The young don’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

— Seumas MacManus

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

— Jon Gordon

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

— Heidi Klum

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

— Deval Patrick

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

— Anatole France

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

— Melinda Gates

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

— Richard Brautigan

“They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

— Mark Lawrence

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

— Khalil Gibran

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

— William James Mayo

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

— Malcolm Forbes