Quotes on Teacher

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

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

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.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,_x000D_ _x000D_ That's a' the learning I desire.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

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.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.