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

teacher

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

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

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

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.

A good teacher is a determined person.

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

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

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

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.

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.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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.'

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

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.

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

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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

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.

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

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

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

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.