Quotes About Teachers And Teaching

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“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
– Henry Adams

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
– Horace Mann

“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.”
– Howard Nemerov

“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
– Jack Welch

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
– Jacques Barzun

“We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.”
– James Carville

“I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.”
– James Levine

“A child’s learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.”
– James S. Coleman

“You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.”
– Jay Mohr

“In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‘We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles’.”
– Jimmy Carter

“Catholic schools in our Nation’s education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.”
– Joe Baca

“Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that’s not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.”
– Joe Manchin

“A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.”
– John Henrik Clarke

“Experience is a great teacher.”
– John Legend

“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
– John Ruskin

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
– John Steinbeck

“To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.”
– John Strachan

“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”
– Joyce Meyer

“Experience is the teacher of all things.”
– Julius Caesar

“I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.”
– Karl Lagerfeld

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
– Khalil Gibran

“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.”
– Khalil Gibran

“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”
– Lady Gaga

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
– Lee Iacocca

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
– Lily Tomlin

“It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren’t, then I’d be a teacher.”
– Linda Evangelista

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

“Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.”
– Loretta Young

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