Teacher Quotes · Page 89

Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves

— Leonard Roy Frank

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Books and words teach a lot, but age is the greatest teacher

— Kingstyllez

Let's invest in our local schools to make sure that teachers have a livable wage.

— Miguel Cardona

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

— William Shakespeare

Math teacher: I have 5 bottles in one hand, and 6 in the other. What do I have? Student: A drinking problem.

— Babloo

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

— Gilbert Highet

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

— Carlos Pena, Jr

Some people see teachers and they associate the feelings of the other students who are present with the teacher. They psychically connect…

— Frederick Lenz

The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left…

— Ram Charan

Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and…

— Severo Ochoa

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have…

— Bill Drayton

My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If I would get in trouble, my mom would already know when I came home after school. I didn't have time to…

— Beth Behrs

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise…

— Godfrey Reggio

I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They…

— Warren Beatty

One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would…

— Paul Smith

We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to…

— Richard Bach

There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to…

— Jerry Saltz

A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely…

— Santan Dave

“When Booker first started working for her a few years ago and was living in their home, she saw him cower with…

— Sheridan Brown

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except…

— Robert Duvall

It is the woman who controls the whole house...it's her job, that's what she's supposed to do...We have to change this idea…

— Malala Yousafzai

“A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.”

— Giovanni Ruffini

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

— Bel Kaufman

A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

— Ludwig von Mises

“The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. ~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda”

— Paramahamsa Nithyananda

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I've learned from the best. I've had the best teachers in the game.

— Scarface

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

— John Anthony West

My teachers used to point to the jail across the street and say that's where my fists would land me.

— Matt Serra

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

— George Farquhar

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

— Diogenes

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other…

— Confucius

“Spanish teacher, asking me if Juan would like an orange or a yellow hat.”

— Dominique Moceanu

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

At Notre Dame, even my statistics teacher wanted me to win.

— Rudy Ruettiger

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

— Wallace Stegner

The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.

— Wyndham Lewis