Top 1200 Great Teacher Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

Being a teacher was great, but it wasn't what I wanted to do, so it was ultimately crushing.

There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

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

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

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every story in the end, if it is good, tells us something. This is actually what I meant when I said a novelist is a teacher. Which is why I am constantly dealing with "didactic". Now a teacher in the sense I use it is not somebody who has the profession of standing in front of children, with a piece of chalk in his hand scribbling on the blackboard. That is not the teacher I have in mind. The teacher I have in mind is something less tangible.

The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.

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

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

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

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

I had a great year with Bob Mintzer [at Laguardia School of Arts]. Bob is great. We could have just brought the clarinet or dealt with classical stuff, or brought the flute or just dealt with comp and arranging... what a great teacher.

He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this was in California. And he, I started reading him around that time, and then I went to Columbia as well, Trilling was still teaching there, I took a course with him. He was not a great teacher, but he was, when I was younger, he was a good model for the kind of criticism I wanted to do, because he thought very dialectically.

Experience can be a great teacher.

When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.

There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.

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

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

Time is a great teacher, Who can live without hope?

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

I was studying with Stella Adler, who was a great, great teacher who encouraged me to be an actor. I had thought I would just write or direct or whatever. I wasn't thinking very much of Hollywood. I was thinking only of the legitimate theatre. But then I changed.

I feel like every teacher out there has a teacher that impacted them in their life.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.

Experience is a great teacher.

Life is the great teacher.

Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

I always wanted to be a teacher. A bit of me still wants to be a teacher.

A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!

A great teacher makes hard things easy.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

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

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

Within the yogic philosophy, the edge is considered to be my creative teacher from whom I can learn about myself. If I approach this teacher/edge with love, sensitivity and awareness, I will discover that my teacher/edge will move and allow me a greater range of motion.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.