Teacher Quotes · Page 73

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of…

— Paulo Freire

I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray?…

— Charles M. Schulz

My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And…

— Samuel Alito

I always wanted to be a teacher.

— Nicky Hilton

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

— Frederic Chopin

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

— Sivananda

I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can…

— Jonathan Kozol

There are great scholars and wonderful teachers all over the world. Many of them humbly and effectively teach truth, but others do…

— John H. Groberg

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

— Bob Dylan

Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way.…

— Wilder Dwight Bancroft

“Looking for a teacher? Go get one. I'll wait. Go. I'll tell them what I did. Go get one. Go.”

— Kristopher Reisz

So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do…

— Thomas Sowell

The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their…

— Stephen Brookfield

Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher…

— Bel Kaufman

Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students,…

— Robert Barry

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

— Paulo Freire

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the…

— Alan Kay

I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it's my job to teach them to write well. I hope…

— Jill Biden

I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured…

— Gordon Ramsay

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well…

— Bernard Baruch

Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of 'Joh…

— Farah Khan

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the…

— Jack Kornfield

“School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.”

— Vijay Dhameliya

I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going…

— Rick Riordan

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

— Alanna Ubach

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

— Nicholas Sparks

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the…

— William Saroyan

I do feel that there are things you can learn from an artist, but I think you need to be very close…

— Mamoru Oshii

Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

— Marilyn Wallace

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain…

— James S. Coleman

Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the…

— April Greiman

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

— Michael Morpurgo

“He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which is simply a man to whom his book is true, to…

— John Williams

Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

— Mason Cooley

I used to be a teacher. I miss the kids and the camaraderie, but it was a lot of pressure.

— Lucy Beaumont

I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher,…

— Margaret Atwood

Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan served this country well, he did not celebrate his birthday, he celebrated it for teachers.

— Narendra Modi

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

— Patricia Neal