Teacher Quotes

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.