My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system?

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

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

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Fashion was my teacher.It taught me how to live. When I see clothes I want to become worthy of them.

The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.

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

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

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

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

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

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings and helps each individual find his uniqueness.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

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