Quotes About Mentorship

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

Instill respect for teachers.

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

I did not come to collect students, but to train teachers.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.