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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Don't follow your dreams; chase them.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.

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.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to truth.

I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.