Best Teacher Quotes - Page 4

• The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

  Anne Michaels

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.121, Emblem Editions

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• Life experience is the best teacher.

  David Letterman

  Teacher, Life Experience

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• My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.

  Anne Lamott

  Teacher, Mistake, People

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.11, Penguin

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• Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Thinking, Needs

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.14, Penguin

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• The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down in this city, that was enough. It became the best teacher I ever had.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Teacher, New York

  Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Teacher

  "Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Dissident Maestro, Dies" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Suffering is our best teacher because it
  hangs onto us and keeps us in its grip
  until we have learnt that particular
  lesson. Only then does suffering let go. If
  we haven’t learnt our lesson, we can be
  quite sure that the same lesson is going
  to come again, because life is nothing but
  an adult education class, If we don’t pass
  in any of the subjects, we just have to sit
  the examination again. Whatever lesson
  we have missed, we will get it again. That
  is why we find ourselves reacting to
  similar situations in similar ways many
  times.

  Ayya Khema

  Letting Go, Teacher, Class

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• The best teacher is an entertainer.

  Bob Keeshan

  Teacher, Entertainers

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

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

  Dan Rather

  Thank You, Education, Dream

  Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

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• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Autism, Enough

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Time Enough for Love "Prelude II" (1973)

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

  Henny Youngman

  Teacher, Teaching, Men

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

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• Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  Andy Rooney

  Teacher, People, Literature

  "A profession brought back to life" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2005.

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• If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Education, Teacher

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 29, 2016

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• The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  "Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers". Volume XXII,

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

  Sidney Hook

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

  Maria Montessori

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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