Great Teacher Quotes

107 quotes by 95 authors

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school. — Eli Broad
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences. — Kobe Bryant
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing… — Betty Buckley
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. — Maria Callas
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. — Richard Hamming
Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support… — Barack Obama
Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. — Deepak Chopra
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about… — Ken Robinson
Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything. — Bruce Lee
Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant. — James Arthur Ray
Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience. — Evan Esar
The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in… — Carlos Barrios
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. — Bobby Ray Inman
Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love — Unknown Author
What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and… — Joseph Epstein
There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them. — Robert Sternberg
Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn. — Ricky Martin
Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer. — Oprah Winfrey
A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate… — Herbie Hancock
Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well. — Albert Mohler

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