Teacher Quotes - Page 23

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a nurse, teacher, builder and a storyteller. I write also to become myself, more so day by day. Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and exalted-a fireman giving his life to save someone else's. Kindness is love with hands and hearts and minds. It is both whimsical-causing our faces to crack into a smile-and deeply touching-causing our eyes to shimmer with tears. And its miraculous nature is such that the more acts of kindness we offer, the more of them we have to give, for acts of kindness are always drawn from the endless well of love.

Suppose... the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what? .... Are we strong enough to refute the party line and listen deep, listen true to the body as a powerful and holy being?

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.

You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.

California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors in their schools and giving the juvenile justice system the resources it needs.

There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle; the Teacher is Jesus; the matter taught is His Flesh and His Blood

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility.

My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.