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Martin H. Fischer on teacher
Author: Martin H. Fischer“A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions.” -Martin H. Fischer
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Elizabeth Hardwick on teacher
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick“Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.” -Elizabeth Hardwick
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Francis Ford Coppola on teacher
Author: Francis Ford Coppola“I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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Godfrey Reggio on teacher
Author: Godfrey Reggio“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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Leslie Fiedler on teacher
Author: Leslie Fiedler“Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.” -Leslie Fiedler
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Mary Catherine Bateson on teacher
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson“Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.” -Mary Catherine Bateson
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Jeb Bush on teacher
Author: Jeb Bush“Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.” -Jeb Bush
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Jacqueline Bisset on teacher
Author: Jacqueline Bisset“A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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Arthur Koestler on teacher
Author: Arthur Koestler“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” -Arthur Koestler
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Vladimir Nabokov on teacher
Author: Vladimir Nabokov“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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Flannery O’Connor on teacher
Author: Flannery O’Connor“There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” -Flannery O’Connor
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Xun Zi on teacher
Author: Xun Zi“Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher’s instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.” -Xun Zi
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Samuel Dash on teacher
Author: Samuel Dash“While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.” -Samuel Dash
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Joseph Conrad on teacher
Author: Joseph Conrad“To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.” -Joseph Conrad
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Carl Rogers on teacher
Author: Carl Rogers“I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.” -Carl Rogers
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A. N. Wilson on teacher
Author: A. N. Wilson“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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H. Rap Brown on teacher
Author: H. Rap Brown“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”…
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Bobby Knight on teacher
Author: Bobby Knight“I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.” -Bobby Knight
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Sally Ride on teacher
Author: Sally Ride“For whatever reason, I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.” -Sally Ride
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Liam Neeson on teacher
Author: Liam Neeson“I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.” -Liam Neeson
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Eliphas Levi on teacher
Author: Eliphas Levi“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.” -Eliphas Levi
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William Osler on teacher
Author: William Osler“No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.” -William Osler
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Chinua Achebe on teacher
Author: Chinua Achebe“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.” -Chinua Achebe
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John Legend on teacher
Author: John Legend“Experience is a great teacher.” -John Legend