Quotes About Transformation

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

Computers aren't magic; teachers are.

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.