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Quotes About Teacher

The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.
~ Edward Bernays
A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.
~ Paul Halmos
The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.
~ bell hooks
There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.
~ Rod Stryker
All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
~ Plato
My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?
~ Rodney Dangerfield
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
~ Mark Twain
There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.
~ Brett Favre
The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.
~ Janet Jackson
I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.
~ John Calipari
Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
~ Sivananda
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
~ William Hazlitt
A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Imagine a history teacher making history.
~ Christa McAuliffe
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
~ Annie Proulx
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.
~ Charlotte Mason
Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.
~ Joko Beck
A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings and helps each individual find his uniqueness.
~ T. K. V. Desikachar
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.
~ Carl Jung
Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.
~ Liam Gallagher
Learning is a gift, even if pain is the teacher
~ James Garner
Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
~ G. Stanley Hall
The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.
~ Murray Louis