Top 1200 Great Teacher Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.

I had a great time as a teacher, but I was just treading water, as a lot of us do.

My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

I'm one of those people who're good at everything but I'm not great at anything. I thought I'd be a chef or a teacher.

Our real teacher has been and still is the embryo, who is, incidentally, the only teacher who is always right.

Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

Coach Godsey is a brilliant mind, a great teacher, and it's been fun learning from him so far.

I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.

No matter how good a teacher is, if that teacher won't play as part of the team, you're better off without her.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.

If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

My mum is a primary school teacher and my dad is a music teacher and I've got loads of brothers and sisters.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

I like to remind teachers that even though they're all overwhelmed and overloaded, and it's easy to get burned out, it really is about the kids. It only takes one good teacher to change a life - one time, and one book. That's what happened when I was a kid. I had one good teacher that came in at the right time and turned me into a writer. So never lose sight - you could be that teacher.

I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.

Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

The yoga of love is for those who want an all-consuming relationship with their teacher. They see the teacher as an extension of God, of eternity - which all of us are.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

I had the best teacher in the business. Kevin Costner was my teacher. I was acting opposite him and he was directing me. The way he directed me, for which I am eternally grateful, is he would watch the scene back on the monitor, which is sort of considered unfashionable - you're not meant to watch yourself. But he was like, "Come around. Watch this. See there, you're doing a great reaction, but you're doing it out of frame." That was exactly what I needed. I learned how to act on film from him.

No matter how many great things you say about Jacques Pepin, there's always more. Through his books and videos, he taught me the importance of technique in the kitchen, but, more significantly, he showed me what it means to be a great teacher and educator.

If you are going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

My mom was a special-needs teacher for many years, so I knew her students. And one of my best friends from when I was growing up is a teacher for kids with autism now.

Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.

Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!

In the current environment, attributing low student performance to teacher tenure is one of the great unproven causal links out there. The relationship just hasn't been examined very carefully, but we should all recognize that in higher education the strongest institutions generally have the most robust tenure systems, and in elementary and secondary, the states with the strongest teacher unions (and tenure systems) tend to have the highest student performance.

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

There is no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.

I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when I was in school. Cords, sensible shoes and glasses. I never liked geography much as a subject though. In fact the only geography teacher I can remember from school was a woman who had a moustache.

The director's job is like a teacher's, and I feel a teacher should not have any doubts about the subject.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Some people see teachers and they associate the feelings of the other students who are present with the teacher. They psychically connect with all those hundreds of minds and they don't key to the teacher at all.

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.