Top 1200 English Teacher Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.

A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

The teacher is the only one worth listening to.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I've never had the patience of a teacher.

Failure should be our teacher...

Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.

If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.

Usage is the best language teacher.

Painful experiences can be the most powerful teacher.

Ask your child for information in a gentle, nonjudgmental way, with specific, clear questions. Instead of “How was your day?” try “What did you do in math class today?” Instead of “Do you like your teacher?” ask “What do you like about your teacher?” Or “What do you not like so much?” Let her take her time to answer. Try to avoid asking, in the overly bright voice of parents everywhere, “Did you have fun in school today?!” She’ll sense how important it is that the answer be yes.

The best teacher in life is experience.

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

Nature is our greatest teacher.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

Let your Teacher be Love itself.

The best teacher is very interactive.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.

The child-teacher relationship is crucial.

A good teacher is a determined person.

An enemy is indeed a precious teacher.

In my head, I'm still a teacher. I miss the kids.

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

Yesterday should be the teacher of today.

Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic plus. Then slipshod usage came in: an egalitarian minus. By now slovenly grammar is even more rife on the BBC channels than on ITV. In this regard a decline can be clearly charted... If the BBC, once the guardian of the English language, has now become its most implacable enemy, let us at least be grateful when the massacre is carried out with style.

Wherever you go, there’s your teacher.

Every real teacher is myself in disguise.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

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

In business, experience is the big teacher.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.

If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.

When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

Life experience is the best teacher.

A good teacher is a determined person

I learnt martial arts from a Japanese teacher.

The enemy is a very good teacher.

One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu has to say, I have to kind of impersonate Tu Fu. I have to take on, if you will, his voice and his skin in English, and I have to try to get as deeply into the poem as possible. I'm not trying to make an equivalent poem in English, which can't be done because our language can't accommodate the kind of metaphors within metaphors the Chinese written language can, and often does, contain.