Teacher Quotes - page 2

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. (Amos Bronson Alcott)
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. View quote
Arthur Koestler
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. View quote
Robert Sternberg
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. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. View quote
Lisa See
It is always the teacher who must learn the most ... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. View quote
Martin H. Fischer
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. View quote
Gracie Allen
Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. (Oscar Hammerstein II)
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. View quote
Malala Yousafzai
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. View quote
Jack Welch
Yesterday should be the teacher of today. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
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. View quote
Audre Lorde
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. View quote
Victor Hugo
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher. (James Joyce)
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. View quote
Warren Bennis
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. View quote
Joseph Conrad
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. View quote
Albert Einstein
Love is a better teacher than duty. View quote
Albert Einstein