Teacher Great Quotes

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

Music can change the world.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher.

It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

How did it get so late so soon?

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.

Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life.

It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

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

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.