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Best Teacher Quotes

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Benjamin Franklin

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Short Teacher Quotes

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Paul Weyrich

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Mohandas Gandhi

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

Donald Norman

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Bill Gates

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

Peter Brimelow

More Teacher Quotes

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

Temple Grandin

I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.

Estelle Morris

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

John Engler

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Morley Safer

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

John Updike

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

Solomon Ortiz

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Beverly Cleary

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Lee Iacocca

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

Horace Mann

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

Horace Mann

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Lloyd Alexander

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Dr. Seuss

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

James Anthony Froude

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

Estelle Morris

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Karl Barth

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

John Podesta

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Marilyn Hacker

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Sidney Hook

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

Solomon Ortiz

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Bill Moyers

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

Daniel Berrigan

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Bryant H. McGill

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

Jon Porter

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

Francis Ford Coppola

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

Helen Dunmore

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

Martin Lewis Perl

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Anne Sullivan Macy

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Maria Montessori

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Maggie Gallagher

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Allan Bloom

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Michael Porter

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Vladimir Nabokov

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

Amartya Sen

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Jane Haddam

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Maggie Gallagher

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

Jonathan Shapiro

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Charles Kuralt

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.

Henry B. Adams

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

Roald Dahl

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

Mike Huckabee

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

Felix Adler

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Joshua Reynolds

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

Mother Jones

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