Quotes About Knowledge

One of my missions was to teach.

When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher.

One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

Experience is a good teacher.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Why don't we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they'd also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.