Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

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

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

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

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

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

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

False teachers invite people to come to the Master's table because of what's on it, not because they love the Master.

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