Teacher Quotes

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Carl Rogers

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

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything.
Maria Montessori

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori

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

If you don't ask, you don't get.
Stevie Wonder

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
Jose Marti

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help
Anne Sullivan

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever after wards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

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

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

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

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
J. Lubbock

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Jack Welch

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

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

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.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

All students can learn.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.”
Bob Talbert

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
Brooks Atkinson

When I was a schoolgirl my history teacher, Mr Scott, began to take classes in civic affairs. The first thing he explained to us was the fundamental rule of law embodied in Habeas Corpus.
Vivienne Westwood

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

Great teachers transcend ideology.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

I like the old custom of godparents. Neither of my parents were good carriers or teachers for me, and at age 15, I had the instinctive sense to go out and get myself a pair of godparents.
Robert Johnson

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.