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I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher. — Truth Devour

I wish to become a teacher of the Truth. — Anthony De Mello

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. — Frank Herbert

Teacher and the guard. He nodded. — Nora Roberts

You never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice. — Frederick Lenz

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms. — William Glasser

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it. — Yoko Ono

who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers? — Arthur C. Clarke

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body — Vsevolod Pudovkin

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish. — Hermann Hesse

Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge. — Cheryl Richardson

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. — Marva Collins

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work. — Patricia Marx

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim. — Elie Wiesel

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound! — Kabir

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life. — Pope Francis

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. — William James

Sorry I'm late, Ms. Egami said to the class. She dropped her papers, which scattered in that special way papers do when one is running late. — Adam Rex

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great. — William James

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. — Charles Henry Fowler

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

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

Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself. — Neil Gaiman

Teacher: "Amy, what do you call the outside of a tree?" Student: "No idea, Miss Smith." Teacher: "Bark, Amy." Amy: "Arf! Arf! Arf! — Various

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise. — Alison Gopnik

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student. — Soren Kierkegaard

The best teacher in life is experience. — LeBron James

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

Viewing teaching as a moral endeavor filled with uncertain and inevitable dilemmas positions the teacher always as an inquirer. — Celia Oyler

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear. — J.C. Ryle

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. — Seymour Papert

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest joy of being a teacher, Mr.Karasuma is when a student provides a clear answer to a question you had your doubts about. — Yusei Matsui

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ... with wordless variety ... She spells the name of Love. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Never regret your past. Rather,
embrace it as the teacher that it is. — Robin S. Sharma

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers. — Bill Mollison

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so. — Idries Shah

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. — Allan Bloom

The Teacher of the Truth trains in righteousness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. — Tom Perrotta

The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn't talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them. — Mikey Way

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher. — Heraclitus

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? — Diogenes

The best way to fight terrorism is to invest in education. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers. — Malala Yousafzai

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 Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. — Swami Vivekananda

Modeling is the most powerful of all teachers! — John G. Miller

it is better to be in the dark with a friend than in the light without one. — Teacher

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned. — Ann Coulter

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. — Dave Eggers

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

The teacher you need is the person you're living with. — Byron Katie

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

Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior. — Balroop Singh

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

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

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American. — Gerald Vizenor

giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow. — Richard Dawkins

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

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country. — Kym Whitley

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven. — Andy Hargreaves

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

The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning
every teacher should know about it. — Daniel Goleman

I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages. — Paul Smith

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. — Bertolt Brecht

Why the anchor?"
"Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you. — L.J. Shen

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

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. — Robert Breault

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown. — Martin Luther

That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. — Gilbert Highet

The teacher, not a set of books, is the determining factor in quality results. — James Bastien

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching. — George Bernard Shaw

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, 'The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself — Idries Shah

We can learn from a teacher. But in order to master, we must become the teacher. — Charles F. Glassman

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction. — Sheldon Jackson

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have. — Hannah Whitall Smith

Failure is our teacher, not the success. — Debasish Mridha

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life. — Michael A. Singer

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning. — Andy Hargreaves

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A. — Gayle Forman

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems. — David Perkins

The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best. — Andy Rooney

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. — Robert Breault

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts. — William James Mayo

Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about. — Paula Creamer

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members. — Peter Brimelow

Success is the greatest teacher for future success. — Debasish Mridha

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you. — George Bernard Shaw

I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers. — Vijay Singh

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

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later. — Daymond John

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries. — Wendy Kopp

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools. — Ken Robinson

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem. — Marva Collins

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure. — Willard Wigan

Let the main object ... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more. — John Amos Comenius