513 private quotes tagged teacher

“My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.” — Niklaus Wirth

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“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” — Swami Vivekananda

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“When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.” — David Coverdale

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“What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.” — William Glasser

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“Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.” — Godfrey Reggio

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“The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'” — Chris Pratt

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“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” — Andy Rooney

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“The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.” — Tucker Carlson

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“I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.” — Arthur Smith

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“Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.” — Brian Sandoval

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“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” — Horace Mann

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“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.” — Phyllis Diller

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“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.” — A. N. Wilson

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“Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.” — Peter Drucker

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“I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.” — Justin Townes Earle

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“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.” — Howard Nemerov

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“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” — Alexander the Great

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“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.” — Thurgood Marshall

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“Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.” — Gerald Jampolsky

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“A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.” — W. H. Auden

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“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.” — Warren G. Bennis

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“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.” — Temple Grandin

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“My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.” — Thom Gunn

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