Teacher Quotes

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

Fortunately, in talking with the classroom teacher, she shared with me that the children recently read a couple of books on loss -- 'Charlotte's Web' and 'The Taste of Blackberries,' ... The children had an opportunity to discuss feelings and talk about what it meant to lose someone and to share with each other.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

No other teacher would do what she did for a lot of people. She was like my second mother.

He's an English teacher. He thought it was pretty funny. We kind of laughed at him, not at the joke. He's always trying to loosen us up, and it helped us.

The incredible power of a teacher.

It crosses the line of student-teacher relations. There's no acceptable reason for why a teacher would do that. You hold your teachers to a higher standard; you expect them to respect your child.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

A teacher is better than two books.

She's my all-time favorite teacher.

"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high.".

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

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

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

I am their music teacher. I float in and spend about 20 minutes with them. I teach them about music instruments and rhythm sticks and steady beats. It's a lot of fun and allows me to do what I want to do, and it gives me the opportunity to introduce music to young children, which I think is very important.

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

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.