Teacher Quotes

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

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.

A good teacher is a determined person.

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

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

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.