Quotes About Teacher

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

In reference to how he came to love music after hearing Mozart's sonatas] I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty, at least for me.

I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. 'They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.

It's been going so well. We have a wonderful time in class, and I can feel the chemistry between you. - That's because it's chemistry class.

Mma Lentswe looked into her teacup. "Children say these things. They never admit they did anything. I was a teacher, Mma—I know that.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

Dear Mr. Gibbon. Sorry I was absent. Here is some salted food. Please grade it the way you would a jenti piece of beef jerky.

There is a difference between a lump-in-the-throat kind of blessing, and edification. A preacher who plays the emotional violin can make you feel good for a time, but at the end, what do you have? Nothing. As the ancient rhetoricians would have put it, nothing dries more quickly than a tear. An edifying preacher or teacher gives you a brick, and, when you get home, you know exactly where in the wall to put it. As a result, the structure goes up.

Life is like a confused teacher. First she gives the test and then teaches the lesson.

What he learned from his favorite teacher was not obedience to authority but delight in the exercise of his mind.

Still another accused Teacher Wang of attempting to corrupt a young revolutionary by buying her some bread when he learned that she had not eaten lunch.

Teacher Wei's situation was very bad. She was a junior high school math teacher, and before the Cultural Revolution she had been a Model Teacher. Her study wall was covered with certificates of merit. Now she was called a black model, and because her father was a capitalist and her mother had committed suicide, she was criticized all the more.

After a few seconds, she opened one eye and glanced at her fellow teachers. "What do I do next?" she asked earnestly

Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.

Used poorly in a compulsory, heavy-handed way, video recording can damage teacher morale at a time when, for many teachers, morale is at an all-time low.

Sarah Jane, do you always have to be the teacher?" she asked and then immediately added, "I already know the answer so you don't have to answer that.

When someone becomes a teacher, she's like the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof. All year long she's trying to entice students to go out on dates with authors—that is, to pick up this book or that book and spend twenty minutes with the author, someone they've never met. The better she knows her students and authors or books, the more successful will be the "matchmaking." But the teacher (or librarian) who doesn't read much will fail for sure.

Aí me explicou: um senhor, no Palhão, na fazenda Nhanva, altas beiras do Jequitaí, para o ensino de todas as matérias estava encomendando um professor.

Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing teacher, gave it a B-minus. Do you know what that does to a a person to get a B-minus in Grief?

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our glories and our sadnesses. It is at different times a lover, an enemy, a teacher, a prophet. It is always a collective memory as complicated and contradictory as people who lived it, but it is always a people's story. Let our tale be marked by our knowledge of what had to be done, and let it shine with the passion of our attempt.

Fine scholar though he was, he was an even better teacher; and it may truly be said of him...that in turning men's minds to the Middle Ages he 'stimulated their mental thirst...silently indoctrinating them with nobler ideas, which might afterwards be appealed to as first principles'.