Quotes About Influence

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own

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

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.