Quotes About Teachers And Teaching

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“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
– Swami Vivekananda

“When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.”
– Sylvester Stallone

“I think once you’re in the public eye, whether you’re a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you’re automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.”
– Talib Kweli

“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.”
– Temple Grandin

“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.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.”
– Thomas Szasz

“History is Philosophy teaching by example.”
– Thucydides

“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.”
– Thurgood Marshall

“Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.”
– Unknown

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
– Vernon Law

“A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.”
– W. H. Auden

“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”
– Warren Buffett

“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”
– Warren G. Bennis

“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, ‘Oh, God, what’s this?’ I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.”
– Whitney Houston

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it’s really bad because everything we’ve done is de-humanizing education. It’s destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.”
– William Glasser

“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.”
– William Glasser

“This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.”
– William Glasser

“To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you’ve been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.”
– William Hague

“The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.”
– William Jennings Bryan

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”
– William Wordsworth

“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.”
– Woodrow Wilson

“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”
– Woody Allen

“When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.”
– Xun Zi

“We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we’ve heard in fairy tales.”
– Yakov Smirnoff

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