Great Teacher Quotes - Page 10

• Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.

  Laozi

  Oneness, Perception, Awareness

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Life is the great teacher.

  James Joyce

  Life, Teacher, Life Is

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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• A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

  Laurence Housman

  Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching

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• I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Teacher, Drama, Mean

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

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• Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, New York, Cheer

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

  Morgan Wootten

  Basketball, Teacher, Curse

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• Time is a great teacher,
  Who can live without hope?

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Teacher, Time

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

  Bruce Lee

  Funny, Sarcastic, Teacher

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• Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Humor, Lord

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• Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher

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• To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual leader - there's another relationship that makes those lives what they are. And in each of these cases you'll find elements of gift exchange thriving, and you'll also find a tension around it.

  Lewis Hyde

  Spiritual, Teacher, Leader

  Interview with Akshay Ahuja, logger.believermag.com. January 9, 2015.

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• As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities.

  William Alexander Percy

  Teacher, Pride, Justice

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• One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Teacher, Lying, Knowledge

  "Yo-Yo Ma". Book by Richard Worth, 2007.

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• Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
  Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore;
  What future bliss He gives not thee to know,
  But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

  Alexander Pope

  Hope, Teacher, Blessing

  Alexander Pope (1764). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.12

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• The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

  Daniel Berrigan

  Teacher, People, Jesuit

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Rattle Intreview, www.rattle.com. May 3, 2016.

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• No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Teacher, Travel, Men

  "The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicle)". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 1, 2011.

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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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• Experience is a great teacher.

  John Legend

  Teacher, Reality, Experience

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• But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

  Buddy Rich

  Teacher, Thinking, Play

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• Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Teacher, Adversity, Pay

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• Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

  Ken Robinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Creative

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• The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

  Pat Conroy

  Teacher, Reason, Embrace

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Fingerprints, Extraordinary

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• In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Teacher, Teaching, Remember

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Patricia Ann Turrisi (1997). “Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: The 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism”, p.160, SUNY Press

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• My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Teacher, Way, Transformed

  "Jeff Goldblum Makes the Grade as "Seminar's" New Writing Coach". Interview with Robert Kahn, www.nbcnewyork.com. April 27, 2012.

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