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Quotes About Teacher

Education is to guide activity, not repress it. Environment cannot create human power, but only give it scope and material, direct it, or at most but call it forth; and the teacher's task is first to nourish and assist, to watch, encourage, guide, induce, rather than to interfere, prescribe, or restrict
~ Maria Montessori
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
~ Maria Montessori
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.
~ Maria Montessori
The open teacher, like a good therapist, establishes rapport and resonance, sensing unspoken needs, conflicts, hopes, and fears. Respecting the learner's autonomy, the teacher spends more time helping to articulate the urgent questions than demanding right answers.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
~ Marilyn Hacker
We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.
~ Frederick Lenz
A teacher creates and molds the future for the children of tomorrow. A clan who would redefine business, life and sustenance.
~ Unknown
The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.
~ Lowell Milken
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."
~ Maria Montessori
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
~ Patricia Neal
I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach
~ Unknown
A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage
~ Honore de Balzac
Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself
~ Italian proverb
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
~ Ruth Beechick
Rise by learning. Knowledge is never bought on counters or sold in any store, knowledge is the transferred Light from teacher to student...
~ Unknown
A loving, caring teacher took a liking to me. She noticed the potential and wanted to help shape it.
~ Unknown
A zooology teacher asks the class 'What is the one animal in the jungle that a lion is afraid of?' The class answers: a lioness.
~ Unknown
TEACHER: If you had five apples on your desk & the Boy next to you took three, what would you have?...STUDENT: A Fight.
~ Unknown
Teacher: Get out a sheet of paper Student: LOOK AT ME NOW! Teacher: Excuse me? Student: I'm GETTING PAPER
~ Unknown
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.
~ Linda Evangelista
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
~ Hector Berlioz
In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
~ Minna Thomas Antrim