Quotes About Teaching

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.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

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.

The best teachers are the best storytellers.

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

Those who can't teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.

Don't set your wit against a child.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

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

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

Yesterday should be the teacher of today.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.