Teacher Quotes - Page 32

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

As you consider selecting songs for your worship services, consider them in light of the truth of the gospel. Imagine the songs as teachers--because they are! If your people could understand your doctrine only through the music you sing, what would they know about God and His pursuit of us? If your people could understand your church's beliefs only through the music, what would they know?

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

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

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.

You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!

They know enough who know how to learn.