Good Teacher Quotes
115 quotes by 95 authors
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
— Philip Wylie
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A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.
— Eva Amurri
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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a…
— Yann Martel
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From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in…
— Jonathan Kozol
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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude…
— Brenda Ueland
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It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your…
— Andy Andrews
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A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
— Bruce Lee
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Mac: "It's not the sidhe-seers." He stopped and went very still. JZB: "Who is it?" Mac: "The MacKeltars." He was silent a long moment. Then…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted…
— Darren Shan
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Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the…
— Nicholas Sparks
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You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.
— Rudolf Steiner
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Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.
— Unknown Author
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The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average…
— Margaret Mead
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The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.
— Marva Collins
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A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
— Eliphas Levi
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No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them…
— Bertrand Russell
Who Wrote These Good Teacher Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 115 Good Teacher Quotes, led by these top contributors: