Teacher Quotes - Page 8

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point: Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.