Teacher Influence Quotes

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more.

A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments-but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government

The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home.

I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity to thank teachers who have influenced me. I encourage everyone to seize opportunities to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers.

She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything.

Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is.

..the influence and control of the minds of men.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it.

The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities.

They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

I was never really bullied at school.

I was pretty confident in terms of school work and teachers and I've never shyed away from much but a lot of people have come up to me and said that they were bullied at school and my portrayal of Neville has influenced them a lot in their lives and helped them out.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

Many people have been positive influences in my life.

My parents, whom I mentioned, were the most important, but many of my teachers were also a big help to me.