Quotes About Teaching

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

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.

Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

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

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

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've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

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.