Teacher Quotes

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu...

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The t...

Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the soc...

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because...

We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us.

Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underne...

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the me...

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen fo...

If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him...

Your perception is riveting, Amal," he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on...

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and ...

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply pre...

A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties unde...

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encoura...

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable ...

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a ...

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer strea...

He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the firs...

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all...

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of fait...

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the stu...

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father...

An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate ...

I returned, however, with unabated vigour to my work—a more arduous task than anyone can imagine, wh...

Love is a word, another kind of open.As the diamond comesinto a knot of flameI am Blackbecause I com...

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the te...

Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teache...

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or somethin...

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about th...

I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then...

While the founder [of any religious or spiritual system] was still walking among his followers and d...

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take m...

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and what...

Christ is our Way; we walk in Him. He is our Truth; we embrace Him. He is our Life; we live in Him. ...

Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between hu...

Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dange...

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

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand ...

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myse...

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that ...

Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neat...

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. ...

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of ou...

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how...

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who...

When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little no...

Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked a...