Teacher Quotes - page 4

That sound in tune to you? ... Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone. (Charles Mingus)
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice. View quote
William Hazlitt
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. View quote
Frank Zappa
People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time. View quote
Paulo Coelho
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. View quote
Paulo Coelho
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. View quote
Maria Montessori
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. View quote
Maria Montessori
Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility. View quote
George Sarton
[Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly. View quote
Miriam Makeba
History is the teacher of life. View quote
Cicero
History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. (Cicero)
I am not a teacher but an awakener. View quote
Robert Frost
Your own self is your ultimate teacher (sadguru). The outer teacher (Guru) is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher, that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. View quote
Patricia Neal
I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher. View quote
Linda Evangelista
Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books. View quote
Stephen Fry
Your best teacher is your last mistake. View quote
Ralph Nader
What is there to say? Purely and simply this: When a bachelor of philosophy from Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the ground of his color. I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. Wren one else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men, I say that intelligence has never saved anyone; and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men . View quote
Frantz Fanon
Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world. View quote
Lady Gaga
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. (William Jennings Bryan)
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say. View quote
Thomas Eakins
As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, 'Painters must speak through paint - not through words. View quote
Hans Hofmann
I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me. View quote
Sanford Weill