Teacher Quotes

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

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.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.