The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
— Carl Rogers
Whopping Teacher Training quotations
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.
To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training.
To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love.
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me.
He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time.

Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.
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.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

School leadership has been identified as another critical element of student success, and subsequently enough resources and training should be provided to our school principals and administrators to allow them to create a strong ecosystem in our schools and support teachers and parents as well.
Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.
Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

Teacher training institutes should impact training of our nation's teachers in a manner that encourages them to support the holistic development of the child and to continuously refine their own skills to create the best possible learning environments for our children.
What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.
I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician.
My teacher made sure that everything was available.

I was fortunate to be around a couple of coaches who took me under their wing and taught me how to train, how to work and how to prepare myself for a game. They gave me so much, and I saw the passion they had for the game and for teaching it. What I learned from them led me to want to become a teacher and coach.
We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me.
It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

The thing that I do in my day-to-day is teach Yoga, and train teachers, and train therapists, and now my life has gone to a whole other level because I became involved with people at the very top of American healthcare.
Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
I trained and worked really hard all my life in dance classes.
I always fell into the shadows of my mother, and it was hard for me to really realize that I had done the work. Yes, she took me to the best teachers, but I did the work.
I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the Sámi culture, was not good enough, so I wanted to be Norwegian or European, I wanted to forget the culture. And then this music started to... in a way I had to ask myself "why is this, and what does all this come from?
It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."