Quotes on Best Teacher

I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teacher/coach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.

What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

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

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