Famous Quotes About teacher

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

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.