Quotes About Teaching

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

At our best, we are all teachers

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

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.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.

I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.

That teacher teaches best who teaches least.

We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.