"The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem"

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching"

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

"Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor"

"We need to redefine the role of the teacher from that of the transmitter of knowledge to that of a researcher, co-learner, and partner in the process of constructing knowledge"

"Your best teacher is your last mistake"

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it"

"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"

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

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

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