Quotes About Mentorship

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Wherever you find something extraordinary, you'll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

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.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

You don't become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

I'm a teacher, not a leader. If you lose your leader, you're leaderless and lost, but if you lose your teacher there's a chance that he taught you something and you can navigate on your own.

I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.

Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.

In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"