More Inspiring Teacher Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“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

“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.”
– Dalai Lama

“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth‘.”
– Dan Rather

“In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, ‘Me? You’ve got to be joking!’ I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.”
– Danica McKellar

“Students never think it can be the teacher’s fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn’t do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it’s how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.”
– Danica McKellar

“A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt ‘Don’t bother me – I’ve got important work to do.’”
– Daniel Goleman

“If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.”
– Dave Chappelle

“Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.”
– David E. Kelley

“The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.”
– David Price

“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

“We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.”
– Donald Norman

“We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It’s not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.”
– Donna Shalala

“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

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.”
– Edward Gibbon

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.”
– Eliphas Levi

“You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.”
– Elisabeth Rohm

“Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.”
– Elizabeth Hardwick

“A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.”
– Ellen Ochoa

“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.”
– Eric Hoffer

“Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle 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

“I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.”
– Francis Ford Coppola

“TV is bigger than any story it reports. It’s the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.”
– Fred W. Friendly

“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

“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.”
– Gerald Jampolsky

“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
– Gertrude Jekyll

“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.”
– Gertrude Stein

“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.”
– Gilbert Highet

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