Teacher Quotes - Page 14

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

Only the educated are free.

Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.

We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on the board, and he farted. And you would have thought kids had seen the face of God. Kids weren't even laughing; they were just sitting there screaming, just screaming. Kids had to get carted out; kids were screaming. Kids had to get carted out, and they were going to the nurses' office. Kids are crying in the hallway. 'Oh, this is our 9/11.' And it was. It was their 9/11 'cause they never thought anything like that could ever happen.

In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.

An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.