Quotes About Learning

The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

Instill respect for teachers.

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.