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Quotes About Mentorship

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
~ Baltasar Gracian
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.
~ John G. Kemeny
Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.
~ Andy Andrews
I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
~ James Galway
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
~ Betty Buckley
I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.
~ Roald Hoffmann
In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first
~ Gary L. Francione
I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.
~ Andres Segovia
I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.
~ Brice Marden
Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
~ Robert Frost
At our best, we are all teachers
~ Maya Angelou
Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.
~ Esperanza Spalding
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.
~ Sam Mendes
There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
~ Mackenzie Astin
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.
~ Frederick William Robertson
Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.
~ Carol Ann Tomlinson
The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rabbi means teacher, and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.
~ Ephraim Mirvis
If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.
~ Kel Mitchell
Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.
~ Pete Seeger
What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
~ Karl Kraus