Teacher Quotes · Page 61

“It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths.”

— David James Duncan

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

— Mary Oliver

For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.

— Lucy Deakins

The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul.

— Robert A. Johnson

Don't you hate when the teacher ask you a question that is impossible to answer

— Ralphsartin

The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

— Malala Yousafzai

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

— Quentin Blake

I had three miscarriages, then, at forty-eight, a child with serious developmental difficulties. He is a blessing and a jewel. He is…

— Julie Newmar

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be…

— Anonymous

School uses a lot of paper, paper comes from trees, trees give us oxygen, we need oxygen to live. Oh, cool. Teachers…

— Anonymous

The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the…

— Wilbert J. McKeachie

LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and…

— Hillary Clinton

“It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly." "Very few teachers…

— Agatha Christie

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy…

— Colson Whitehead

“The faculty member is the student’s natural enemy and if he lets down his guard he is sorry for it later, has…

— Elizabeth Savage

I used to audition for musicals when I was in New York before I moved to L.A., but I couldn't quite hit…

— Missi Pyle

I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the Sámi culture, was…

— Mari Boine

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be…

— Donna VanLiere

If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a…

— Whitney Houston

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

“I would ask my teacher a question," Yehonala said. "Ask," Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large…

— Pearl S. Buck

When the teacher tells you you're a dunce and you're never going to amount to anything, that sticks with you.

— Jay Blades

We sin then we ask for forgiveness. God is my teacher and I, his apprentice.

— Raghib Clitso

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

— Lou Holtz

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

— Tim Robbins

So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.

— John B. Goodenough

That Awkward Moment When It's Quiet In Class And Your Stomach Decides To Make That Dying Whale Sound.

— Pacifiersucker

“The teacher, not a set of books, is the determining factor in quality results.”

— James Bastien

English Teacher were never going to finish this book if you constantly pick the illiterate people to read.

— Anonymous

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

— William Butler Yeats

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

— Megan Park

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

— Doug E. Fresh

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

— Ken Wilber

I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles.

— Jon Stewart

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

— Bunker Roy

“I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“teachers choose materials, they consider materials’ individuality; unusual”

— Ann Lewin-Benham