Teacher Quotes · Page 62

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

— Bruce Rauner

I know what it's like to be told by your teacher that you'll never amount to anything.

— T.I

I just felt like every situation I was in, I had a teacher that really was motivating me.

— John Smoltz

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him…

— Wanda Landowska

“View everyone around you as a teacher; from some, seek to learn what not to do and from others, what to do.”

— Amey Hegde

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Teacher: 'I am beautiful. What tense is this?' Me: 'Obviously past.'

— Anonymous

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

— Anonymous

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the…

— Agnes Repplier

When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!

— Momina Mustehsan

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head…

— Yann Martel

Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will…

— Brian Weiss

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was…

— Alan Shepard

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who…

— Sebastian Coe

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of…

— Erica Brown

If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not…

— Frederick Lenz

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons…

— Simon Cowell

When we talk about women's struggle to balance their lives, certain men growl, 'If you can't stand the heat, get back to…

— Allison Pearson

I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was…

— Lee Child

As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure.…

— Mike Krzyzewski

I like a lot of things about yoga - its an intro to good music; with each good teacher you study with,…

— Charles Michael Davis

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got…

— Bat for Lashes

There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas…

— Joan Wallach Scott

I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences…

— Simon Rich

I teach jazz dancing and I can be a guest teacher whenever I want.

— Ann Reinking

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

— Bob Goff

“When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear —Zen proverb”

— Colleen Collins

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

— Phil Collins

“Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.”

— Gordon Neufeld

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

— Anonymous

Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.

— Susanna Kaysen

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

— Rumi

All I wanted to be was a teacher and perhaps give dance recitals from time to time.

— Rituparna Sengupta

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

— Solomon Ortiz

Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

— David Gergen

I had a great time as a teacher, but I was just treading water, as a lot of us do.

— Greg Davies

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

— Anonymous

That Moment When the nerdy kid in your class screams you forgot to take up homework .

— InFinity

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

— Frank McCourt