Teacher Quotes

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

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

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.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.