Teacher Quotes

"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"

"Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher"

"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"

"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"

"I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more"

"Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage"

"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"

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty"

"Love is a better teacher than duty"

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge"

"The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner"

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher"

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

"Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another"

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

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

"The greatest teacher I know is the job itself"

"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""

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

"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then"

"I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life"

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework"

"My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation"

"My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers"

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well"

"If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now"

"Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay"

"I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father"

"If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher"

"A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student"