Teacher famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
-- A. A. Milne -
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
-- A. A. Milne -
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
-- A. C. Benson -
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
-- A. N. Wilson -
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
-- A. S. Byatt -
If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
-- Aaron Levie -
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
-- Aaron Tveit -
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
-- Abdoulaye Wade -
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.
-- Abdul Kalam -
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
-- Abe Fortas -
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
-- Abraham Maslow -
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
-- Abraham Verghese -
When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
-- Adam Garcia -
In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
-- Adam Hamilton -
I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
-- Adam Hamilton -
Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.
-- Adam Riess -
Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
-- Adora Svitak -
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
-- Adyashanti -
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
-- Agnes Repplier -
I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.
-- Aida Turturro -
I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
-- Ajahn Chah -
You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
-- Ajahn Chah -
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.
-- Ajay Naidu -
My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'
-- Al Franken -
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
-- Alan Bennett -
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
-- Alan Kay -
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
-- Alan Kay -
Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…
-- Alan Rickman -
I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.
-- Alan Shepard -
If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.
-- Alan Sugar -
Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field.
-- Alan Tower Waterman -
Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
-- Alanna Ubach -
You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.
-- Alanna Ubach -
When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
-- Albert Bandura -
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
-- Albert Camus -
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
-- Albert Camus -
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
-- Albert Camus -
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-- Albert Einstein -
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
-- Albert Einstein -
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
-- Albert Einstein -
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
-- Albert Einstein -
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
-- Albert Einstein -
School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.
-- Albert Einstein -
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
-- Albert Einstein -
Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.
-- Albert Mohler -
The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'
-- Albert Shanker -
My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want to create. We have to go out in society to understand how people live and dress in their real lives.
-- Alberta Ferretti -
I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.
-- Alberto Manguel -
You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.
-- Alek Wek -
If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.
-- Alexander Crummell -
Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
-- Alexander Pope -
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
-- Alexander the Great -
But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.
-- Alfie Kohn -
In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Â Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.
-- Alfie Kohn -
Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.
-- Alfie Kohn -
The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
-- Alfie Kohn -
An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that a child who enters school already discouraged regains his self-confidence through his school and his teacher. This goes hand in hand with the vocation of the educator, for education is possible only with children who look hopefully and joyfully upon the future.
-- Alfred Adler -
There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being taught. What really matters is the communication of the spirit of mathematics. It is a spirit that is active rather than contemplative-a spirit of disciplined search for adventures of the intellect. Only as adventurer can really tell of adventures.
-- Alfred Adler -
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.
-- Alfred Adler -
I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.
-- Alfred Doblin -
The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that they are required to adhere to the norms set by their school, their teacher, and their fellow students.
-- Alfred Goodwin -
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
-- Alfred Nobel -
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.
-- Alice Moore Hubbard -
There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
-- Alice von Hildebrand -
Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.
-- Alice Waters -
I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.
-- Alicia Vikander -
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.
-- Alistair Begg -
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
-- Allan Bloom -
Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.
-- Allan Sherman -
The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.
-- Ally Carter -
Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.
-- Ally Carter -
As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.
-- Alma Adams -
Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
-- Alma Gluck -
Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.
-- Alois Podhajsky -
I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo -
I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.
-- Amanda Beard
