Teacher Quotes

"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"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

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important"

Bill Gates, Businessman

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

Bill Gates, Businessman

"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

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

John Ruskin, Writer

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

Helen Keller, Author

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

C. S. Lewis, Author

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

Gertrude Stein, Author

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

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"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

"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

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"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

"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

"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

"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 greatest teacher I know is the job itself"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

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

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"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

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

Walt Whitman, Poet

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

Michael Porter, Educator

"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

"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

"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

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

Martin H. Fischer, Author

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

Dalai Lama, Leader

"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

"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'"

Jimmy Carter, President

"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

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