Quotes About Understanding

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

Teachers today can't take to a child.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.

Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

You become a real teacher when your understanding of the wants and needs of the student results in the student revealing her inner beauty.

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.

Yes, Mel. That's exactly why I left without explaining. Because I think about you before I think about myself. Always remember that, Little Ballerina. Always.

The Holy Spirit is our great Teacher.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.