Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

teacher

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

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

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

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

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.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

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.

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

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

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.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

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

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

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

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

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

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

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

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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

A good teacher is a determined person.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

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

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

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

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.

Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.