Best Teacher Quotes - Page 5

• It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Inspirational, Success, Teamwork

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• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett

  Education, Freedom, War

  "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

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• They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspirational, Teacher, Inspire

  "Dear John". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2006.

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• Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

  Charles Kuralt

  Teacher, Retirement, Literature

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• Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Teacher, School, Government

  "The West Wing". www.imdb.com. 1999–2006.

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• You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Teacher, Want, Authority

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sad, Teacher, Appreciation

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Dream, Teacher

  Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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• Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

  Minna Antrim

  Teacher, Cynical, Experience

  "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions". Book by Minna Antrim, 1901.

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• the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Teacher, Adventure

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• When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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• One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

  Philip Wylie

  Teacher, Appreciation, Citizens

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• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Family, Best Effort

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• Education is the best provision for old age.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

  William Shakespeare

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  William Shakespeare, Burton Raffel, Harold Bloom (2007). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.88, Yale University Press

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• Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

  Pat Pattison

  Song, Teacher, Trying

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• Life is the best teacher.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Inspirational, Teacher, Educational

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• We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.

  Bob Filner

  Teacher, Children, Support

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• My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

  Brian Greene

  Teacher, Answers, Excited

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• There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.

  Graham Coxon

  Teacher, Art, Students

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

  Carl Sagan

  Teacher, Book, Mind

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• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  Carla Bley

  Music, Teacher, Listening

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• I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

  Julie London

  Teacher, Cutting, Thinking

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• The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.

  Carl Sagan

  Teacher, Inspire, Mind

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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