Good Teacher Quotes - Page 9

• When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

  Richard Simmons

  Teacher, Strong, Night

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

  Adora Svitak

  Teacher, Important, Culture

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• That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

  Maria Callas

  Education, Teacher, Mean

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• 'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teacher, Simple, Creation Science

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• Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive phase of the work. ... A good teacher should understand and impress on his students the view that no problem whatever is completely exhausted.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Book, Hard Work

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• No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.417, Routledge

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• A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Teacher, Appreciate, Quality

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• I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

  Eric Mazur

  Teacher, Information, Students

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• A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

  Bruce Nauman

  Teacher, Artist, Difficult

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• In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Strong, Teaching

  Parker J. Palmer, Megan Scribner (2007). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.104, John Wiley & Sons

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• From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Teacher, Father, Educational

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book I, Verse 4,

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• A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

  Julius Lester

  Teacher, Years, Helping

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• Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Teacher, Teaching, Science

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• What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

  Marva Collins

  Teacher, High Standards, Students

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.  Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

  Pema Chodron

  Dream, Hope, Teacher

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• You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Teacher, Wake Up

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children”, p.15, Parallax Press

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• The enemy is a very good teacher.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Teacher, Enemy

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