Teacher Quotes

"I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher"

"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself"

Confucius, Philosopher

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth""

Dan Rather, Journalist

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self"

Helen Keller, Author

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder"

John Ruskin, Writer

"After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room"

Dr. Seuss, Writer

"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"The greatest teacher I know is the job itself"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy"

Michael Porter, Educator

"You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up"

Tony Dungy, Coach

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

John Strachan, Clergyman

"To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends"

Maria Callas, Musician

"When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends"

Maria Callas, Musician

"A teacher is a person who never says anything once"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task"

Haim Ginott, Teacher

"Experience is the teacher of all things"

Julius Caesar, Leader

"Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

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