Teacher Quotes on Learning & Ideas – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Alan Hovhaness

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

Conrad Burns

Great teachers transcend ideology.

Suzanne Fields

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

Norton Juster

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

Brian Ferneyhough

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

Gordon Getty

A good teacher is a determined person.

Gilbert Highet

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

Henry Brooks Adams

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

Harold Bloom

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

Richard Howard

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Dallas Willard

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

Haim Ginott

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

Seymour Papert

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

Charles Phillips

When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

John Redwood

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

Cecil Frank Powell

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

Mary A. Ward

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

Roald Hoffmann

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

Richard Stengel

If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

Barbara Colorose

We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.

Evan Thomas

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

David Selby

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

P. J. O'Rourke

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

Marguerite Moreau

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Henny Youngman

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

John Philip Sousa

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

James Galway

I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.

Skeet Ulrich

We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.

Brad Garrett

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

Ian Hart

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

James Levine

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

Kyan Douglas

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Maria Callas

The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

Kinky Friedman

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

David Ogden Stiers

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Steve Allen

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Max Beerbohm

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

Patrick Stewart

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Darrell Royal

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

Scott Hamilton

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

Alma Gluck

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Rory Bremner

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Maria Callas

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

Dizzy Dean