Quotes on Teacher

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.