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A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. — Bruce Lee

My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it. — Frederick Lenz

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training — Charles Handy

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. — Condoleezza Rice

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education. — Laurence Housman

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman. — Justin Trudeau

In a world of sleepwalkers an awakened mind is a teacher and a catalyst for new awakenings, whether they want to be or not. — Bryant McGill

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives. — Deval Patrick

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter. — Wendy Kopp

It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive. — Frederick Lenz

I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher. — Frederick Lenz

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition. — Ernest Shackleton

I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself. — Robert Kiyosaki

If a man has been your teacher for a day, you should treat him as your father for the rest of his life. — Wu Cheng'en

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up. — Megan Park

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while. — Alanna Ubach

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life. — Elbert Hubbard

For many kids, a good teacher may be the most palpable form of honor they will ever experience. — David Denby

I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer. — John Hodgman

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me. — Lauren DeStefano

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student. — Hyman Bass

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response. — Paul Goodman

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher. — Herbert Spencer

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work. — Wanda Landowska

I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated. — Chris Baio

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement. — Edward Blishen

There's always one teacher you had a crush on; for me, it's my wife's aerobics instructor. — Brian Kiley

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school. — Karl Lagerfeld

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself. — Diogenes

Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason. — Iyanla Vanzant

Looking for a teacher? Go get one. I'll wait. Go. I'll tell them what I did. Go get one. Go. — Kristopher Reisz

I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn't have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list. — Rick Riordan

I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. — Kathryn Newton

In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun. — Conan O'Brien

The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you. — Dave Barry

I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty," he said, "at least for me. — Walter Isaacson

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo. — Frederick Lenz

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child. — Maria Montessori

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. — Loni Anderson

A wise teacher is a keen and true student of absolute beauty and truth, and he searches everywhere for them in nature with all his heart — Sadegh M. Angha

Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well. — Kristin Gore

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads. — Lloyd Kaufman

Speaking softly and slowly, and breathing through the vocal chords in a low voice, has become the mythical ideal voice for a yoga teacher. — Gudjon Bergmann

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out. — Gloria Steinem

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience. — Quintilian

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher. — Leo Tolstoy

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet. — Ama Ata Aidoo

Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me. — Jim Benton

I sat with the broken;
I whispered their names,
I let them feel for the first time; serendipity, would change the vision they see for a day — Nikki Rowe

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, The children are now working as if I did not exist. — Maria Montessori

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet. — Julia Glass

The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience. — John C. Maxwell

A teacher's shadow can hover for life. — Mitch Albom

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real. — Kiese Laymon

I've often heard it said a preacher
might learn with a comedian for a teacher. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12. — January Jones

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. — Horace Mann

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction. — Alan Chadwick

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice. — Malcolm X

Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity. One inspired teacher can alter a student for life by instilling curiosity. — Deepak Chopra

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

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years. — Johann Lamont

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. — Bobby Ray Inman

I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for. — Quentin Blake

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son. — Steve Harvey

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil
and he will not stay loyal to him
for he is also destined to become a master. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. — Betty Edwards

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach. — Bobby Knight

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future. — Gordon Brown

There are very severe penalties for being a bad student but no penalties at all for being a bad teacher." The — John Holt

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. — Mark Ruffalo

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student. — James Galway

A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success. — Debasish Mridha

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids. — Heidi Klum

Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers. — Ashok Kallarakkal

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever. — Yolanda Adams

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life. — Vittorio Grigolo

For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher. — Lucy Deakins

Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you. — Curtis White

I feel that my main responsibility as a teacher isn't to convey facts, but to rekindle that lost enthusiasm for asking questions. — Max Tegmark

time is the best teacher; patience is the best lesson — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to. — John Barnes

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. — Glenn Beck

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them. — Alan Bennett

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. — Confucius

Looking for a great teacher who can tell you what will happen in the future? Ask the ancient ruins what will happen! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training. — Nido R. Qubein

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office. — Jake Shimabukuro

There's no better teacher for writing than reading ... Get a library card. That's the best investment. — Alisa Valdes

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm. — Chang-rae Lee

A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say. — Thomas Eakins

I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher. — Nikki Giovanni

Teaching is a gift for both the recipient and the teacher. — Ed Coet

Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher. — Linda Darling-Hammond

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football. — Peter Capaldi

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. — Eckhart Tolle

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself — Rachel Naomi Remen

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves. — Chris Van Allsburg