teacher
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
21 wisdom & wit from W. H. Auden
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
22 sayings from Henry Adams
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
2 views from Wallace Stegner
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
9 more quotes from Howard Nemerov
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
45 more quotes from John Ruskin
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
14 sayings from Bertolt Brecht
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
31 quotes from Gertrude Stein
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
4 quotes from Frederick William Robertson
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
25 quotes from Simone Weil
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
8 sayings from Dr. Seuss
Love is a better teacher than duty.
105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
3 quotes from Josef Albers
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
105 views from Albert Einstein
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
2 quotes from Simon Newcomb
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
4 more quotes from Rosa Luxemburg
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
16 wisdom & wit from Henny Youngman
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
21 wisdom & wit from William Wordsworth
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
20 views from Anatole France
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
11 quotes from Horace Mann
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
30 views from Walt Whitman
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
22 more quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
52 sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
11 quotes from Horace Mann
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
59 views from Elbert Hubbard
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
2 more quotes from Mark Van Doren
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
3 quotes from Mary Augusta Ward
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
31 more wisdom & wit from Helen Keller
A good teacher is a determined person.
2 more sayings from Gilbert Highet
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
2 wisdom & wit from Gilbert Highet
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
31 other quotes from Eric Hoffer
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
11 quotes from William Osler
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
3 more thoughts from Gracie Allen
Experience is the teacher of all things.
12 other quotes from Julius Caesar
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
4 more views from Felix Adler
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
10 other wisdom & wit from Max Beerbohm
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
5 more quotes from Maria Montessori
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
4 sayings from Arthur Koestler
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
2 views from Allan Bloom
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
100 sayings from Oscar Wilde
Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.
4 other sayings from Shinichi Suzuki
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
3 wisdom & wit from Gertrude Jekyll
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
3 more quotes from John Philip Sousa
I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.
2 quotes from Alan Shepard
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
13 thoughts from Amos Bronson Alcott
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
3 more views from Sidney Hook
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
3 other wisdom & wit from Sidney Hook
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
3 views from Hector Berlioz
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
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.
9 thoughts from Swami Vivekananda
Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
14 other quotes from Loretta Young
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
4 quotes from George Farquhar
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
4 quotes from George Farquhar
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
75 quotes from Aristotle
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
12 other views from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
14 other thoughts from William Arthur Ward
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
4 other quotes from Minna Antrim