Quotation Explorer - 'Teacher'

A master can tell you what he thinks of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations. - Patricia Neal
There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable. - Harold Bloom
My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method. - Keith Johnstone
A student must be humbled to trained by teacher. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.
No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness. - A.S. Neill
Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers. - Ashok Kallarakkal
He was the kind of teacher every child hated, and they suspected most of the staff did not like him too. - Jay Haughton
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. - Berenice Abbott
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. - Vernon Sanders Law
time is the best teacher; patience is the best lesson - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves. - Caitlin Keiper
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai
The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie! - Ogden Nash
Your past is your experiences and your teacher as well, and your future is your hope, your dream and your fate, while the present is your moment of learning from past and preparation for the future. - Jinnul Jr.
(A point of view of a stupidy of mankind)...Hey... did you check out the book by Stephen King in 7 June published??... (I was talking to one friend if I can put him as a friend...)The teacher says "Stop with this books.."... pff I said once not twice, why to stop? - Deyth Banger
Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest. - Henry Enfield Roscoe
To value learning as a gift, you have to accept pain as a teacher. - Jury Nel
A great teacher is the architect of a great future. - Debasish Mridha
I wrote relationship spelling as "realationship" when I was in 5th class. But English teacher smiled and gave me marks. - Rakesh Vemulawada
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not my topic I will find myself where I don’t want to be, having trod a path I didn’t want to take. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight - Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. - Mahatma Gandhi
I am not a teacher. I can only inspire you and show you how to unfold your own beauty. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz
In old days, instead of asking a teacher, people looked at the dictionary to know the complete definition of teacher. Now Google becomes our teacher and to know about Google, people Google it. - Munia Khan
Failure is the greatest teacher. - Udai Yadla
History is an excellent teacher with few pupils. - Will Durant
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates
You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change. - Debasish Mridha
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. - Swami Vivekananda
Failure is the best teacher for future success. - Debasish Mridha
Christ is the Lesson as well as the Teacher. - Darvin Pruitt
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. - Maria Montessori
Just as you learn from a teacher, so you can observe and learn from the educator we call nature. - Debasish Mridha
Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty. - David Berliner
In life pain is a teacher you will never forget - E.G. Cuartero
FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said -- "That definition's just." The boy said naught but through instead, Remembering his pounded head: "Force is not might but must!" - Ambrose Bierce
No earthly teacher is flawless. If you limit yourself to learning according to the exact mindset of the teacher, you will also inherit his flaws.
A doctor, a teacher and a politician have no caste. - Amit Kalantri
Love this quote from a teacher about their class "This is four walls around the future! - - Anonymous teacher
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. - Matt Groening
Success is the greatest teacher for future success. - Debasish Mridha
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.― - Bob Proctor
In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first - Gary L. Francione
The dream begins, most of the time,with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth - Dan Rather
.the worse experience, the better teacher.. - Boris Kovalík
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. - Minna Thomas Antrim
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher. - Vironika Tugaleva
You become a real teacher when your understanding of the wants and needs of the student results in the student revealing her inner beauty. - Debasish Mridha
Don’t fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become. - Toni Sorenson
Adversities are the best teacher and challenges are the best motivator. - Debasish Mridha
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. - Robert Frost
Pain is a better teacher than pleasure.Poverty is a better teacher than prosperity.Failure is a better teacher than success.Life is a better teacher than university. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level. - Daniel Marques
The ultimate purpose of a teacher is to teach students to think in a better way. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
I am a teacher. Pay close attention - this will be on the test. You don't wreck buildings. You don't take children hostage. And you don't threaten people with violence. Okay class dismissed. Looks like you fail! - yoko
Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself. - Wayne W. Dyer
The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of themselves. - Eleanor Catton
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. - Benjamin Franklin
It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know. - Leon Battista Alberti
.it's a long road when you're on your own ,but there's no better teacher.. - Boris Kovalík
One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance. - Colleen Houck - Ren
You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I just thought that was the most noble contribution you could make to human kind, was to be a teacher. - Dudley Flood
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL. - Bob Proctor
The best teacher kindles the fire of knowledge with appreciation and love of students whose hearts so eagerly desire to learn. - Debasish Mridha
Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world. - C. JoyBell C.
When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher. - Majid Kazmi
Lesson learned from nature cannot be taught by teacher. - Kishore Bansal
If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes twists, turns, surprises and contradictions - some brought about through choices and others pre-ordained by destiny. - Eugenie Laverne Mitchell
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."[Letter, November 1856] - Hector Berlioz
As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless. - Debasish Mridha
I am not a teacher; I am a path finder. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
This mysterious path is described in the holy books, but it cannot be found simply by the study of sacred texts. It is found by the grace and guidance of an accomplished teacher. - Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. - Annie Proulx
Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive. - Noel DeJesus
One of the best things that I wanted to become a teacher is that; I don't want to be forgotten. - Adoniemar
Your life is your teacher and whatever comes to you is the work of your soul. Things are never as they appear on the surface. Your lessons are woven into your losses and challenges and only you can figure out what they mean and allow them to change you. - Karen Clark
Failure is often our best teacher not the success. - Debasish Mridha
Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together. - Aaron Hirsh
We do not want to be haunds, teacher. We just want the haunds to go elsewhere for easy prey. - Maureen F. McHugh
The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider. - Lev S. Vygotsky
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. - Pema Chödrön
When I went to school every teacher had a BOARD of education. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
You can’t build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed, - David Brooks
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. - Flannery O'Connor
The student must be humbled to be trained by the teacher. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning. - Mollie Marti
When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher. - Frédéric Chopin
Parenting requires a delicate balance of letting your child be your spiritual teacher while you maintain the clarity and boundaries to be her Earthly teacher. - Jennifer Griffin
loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt
The best teacher teaches not only the information but how to use that information to improve life. - Debasish Mridha
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher. - Melvil Dewey
Life is like a school, we are the student of it: Experience is our Teacher. - Dharmalingam Raju
The Master said, A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.(Analects 2.11) - Confucius
A true spiritual teacher will never guide you through the door, only to the door. - Nikki Rowe
A good teacher is one, that never stops listening; a good listener is one, that never stops teaching. - Anthony Liccione
A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department. - Earl Lovelace
The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the teacher or clergyman, who again are called physicians of the mind only per analogiam. - Ernst Von Feuchtersleben
Today i am feeling proud that i have a greatest teacher. My encouragement my motivation and my leader is only one that is my teacher. From silent to talkative from dread to cheer all credit goes to teacher for their such a encouragement. - Avinash Advani
If you don’t have a teacher, don’t worry. Learn by observing the best teacher which is nature. - Debasish Mridha
I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn. - Dalai Lama XIV
Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.. - Patti Davis
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. - Louis L'Amour
Don't torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now. - Robert Tew
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place - Carl Jung
Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them. - Sydney J. Harris
We are both a student and a teacher from birth. How eagerly we embrace these roles determines how fulfilled we are with our lives. - Simon Boylan
A good entrepreneur is a good teacher. - Edward D. Hess
The best teacher is he who kindles the fire of imaginations and does not fill minds with only information. - Debasish Mridha
People said experience is the best teacher. Until they found a fact that experience is the worst and most painful teacher. - Glad Munaiseche
Failure is our best teacher but fear of failure is our worst enemy. - Debasish Mridha
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. - Albert Einstein
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. - Louis D. Brandeis
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates
Failure is our teacher, not the success. - Debasish Mridha
Teachers achievements does not requires their positions. Because real teacher must not focus in certificates but instead the experiences he encounter to the learners,that he touches the future he teach. - Adoniemar
Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life. - Dan Howell
The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning--every teacher should know about it. - Daniel Goleman, PhD
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read and they have been many, big, and heavy I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. - Charles Sanders Peirce
​Until your inner teacher wakes up, all worldly teachings are worthless. - Abhijit Naskar
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. - Kahlil Gibran
The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL. - Bob Proctor
My teacher asked my favorite color. ... I said ‘Rainbow’.... and I was punished to stand out of my class. - Saket Assertive
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
Everything I see in this existence tells me that we were created by the hand of a teacher. One that has left behind all the materials needed to inspire and complete our education. - Robert Anthony
The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing? - Esmé Raji Codell
Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life. - Debasish Mridha
The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes, twists, turns, surprises and contradictions - some brought about through choices and others pre-ordained by destiny. - Eugenie Laverne Mitchell
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
A teacher can change a life just with appreciation and love. - Debasish Mridha
Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light. - Debasish Mridha
Make nature your best teacher. With great love, learn from her the lessons of life. - Debasish Mridha
Travel teaches as much as a teacher. - Amit Kalantri
The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery. - Lao-Tzu
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. - Frederick William Robertson
The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning. - Debasish Mridha
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures. - Debasish Mridha
Experience is the best teacher. - Van.C.L
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. - Elbert Hubbard
There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. - anonymous
Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings. - W. Lee Grant
I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta - David Brooks
A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success. - Debasish Mridha
A great teacher not only teaches, but they also encourage and appreciate improvement. - Debasish Mridha
It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can? - Henrietta C. Mears
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one. - George Gaylord Simpson
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. - Robin Williams
I am not a teacher of humanity, I am merely servant of humanity. - Abhijit Naskar
About GreenHollyWood who is this character?? My English teacher a fat guy about 30 or 35 years old with Glasses and short Hair. - Deyth Banger
A wise man is a student though he is a teacher. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
For life, nature is our best teacher. - Debasish Mridha
Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being a father, lawyer, doctor and a teacher. Please take this in consideration! - Surgeo Bell
A great teacher plants the seeds of greatness in the minds of future generations. - Debasish Mridha
I am not a teacher, but I am a friend who likes to kindle your heart and awaken your mind. - Debasish Mridha
The VoiceThere is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,"I feel this is right for me,I know that this is wrong."No teacher, preacher, parent, friendOr wise man can decideWhat's right for you--just listen toThe voice that speaks inside. - Shel Silverstein
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions. - Carl Jung
It's important that I make a difference in some way. If it's performing and touching someone that way, that's great; if it's being a teacher and helping a kid understand something, that's even better. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.
Don’t swear at your past; you couldn’t existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends - Polly Berrien Berends
A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education. - Debasish Mridha
Teachers and women have one important thing in common; every man and woman that is born into this world is shaped by a teacher or a woman - Vusi JCK Maseko
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. - Frank Zappa
GreenHollyWood is a bad character, fat, liking jokes, liking jokes about size, about the large, about the how big are you. Likes to laugh when you make a mistake, ... but but he is a teacher?! With a glasses a fat guy! - Deyth Banger
The teacher who does not demand effort of his students does not educate - he merely extends ignorance to new subjects.
In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more. - Toni Sorenson
Nature is the my best teacher. - Tanmaya Guru
Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art. - Fiore Dei Liberi
Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be certified, but the child MUST learn. In a public school environment, the teacher MUST be certified, but the child need NOT learn. - Gene Royer
There is no school or teacher more valuable than your own experiences. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher. - Debasish Mridha
I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline - yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true potential. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. - Amos Bronson Alcott
A teacher is like a magical mirror that will show you your future. Imagine if you have no teacher, it may mean you have no future. - Gracia Hunter
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. - Unknown
A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning. - Raheel Farooq
I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject. - William Zinsser
Your biggest failure becomes your best teacher. - Debasish Mridha
Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching. - H.W.L. Poonja
Create space in your mind for the harsh memories too. Don’t ever cower from a teacher. Learn and live higher because you know how to use those dark memories as stepping-stones to think your way to a higher form of living. - Toni Sorenson
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. - Zig Ziglar
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. - Lorraine Anderson
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