Teacher Quotes

“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.”
― Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution

“Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.”
― Cheryl Richardson

“Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.”
― Ujas Soni

“The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.”
― Vijay Dhameliya

“Love is a word, another kind of open.
As the diamond comes
into a knot of flame
I am Black
because I come from the earth's inside
take my word for jewel
in the open light.”
― Audre Lorde, Coal

“To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.”
― Jane Austen

“What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but to some possession of its power of utterance. The ultimate aim is an ethical and participating aim, not an aesthetic or contemplative one, even though the latter may be the means of achieving the former.”
― Northrop Frye, The Well-Tempered Critic

“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.”
― Mike Schmoker, Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement

“A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“Teach me, O Lord, to glory in my cross. Teach me the value of my thorns. Show me how I have climbed to You through my path of pain. Show me that it is through my tears that I have seen rainbows.”
― George Matteson

“A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.”
― Roy Peter Clark, The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

“Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction on following the breath, no one can teach you about the experience. It comes through practice and patience.”
― Debra Moffitt, Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery

“„- Co do młodzieży, to ja tam jej nie kocham. (…) Szczerze mówiąc, wielu z nich to nawet nie lubię, proszę pani. Ale w miarę sił – pospieszył z zapewnieniem – w miarę sił staram się być dla nich łagodny i wyrozumiały. Ostatecznie, każdy z nas musiał kiedyś przejść przez to piekło zwane młodością.”
― Małgorzata Musierowicz, Szósta klepka

“A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Get Ready, Get Ready!”
― Bishop T.D.Jakes

“We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.”
― Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths

“He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated him; something in her personality invariably affected him. Now that he was feeling his way toward her voice, he found her more interesting than ever before. She lifted the tedium of the winter for him, gave him curious fancies and reveries. Musically, she was sympathetic to him. Why this was true, he never asked himself. He had learned that one must take where and when one can the mysterious mental irritant that rouses one's imagination; that it is not to be had by order. She often wearied him, but she never bored him.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“Even English-teacher bookworms need friends and bars.”
― Jenny Hubbard, Paper Covers Rock

“If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.”
― Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions, and Eternity: A Comprehensive Guide to What the Bible Says about Financial Stewardship, Generosity, Materialism, Retirement, Financial Planning, Gambling, Debt, and More

“I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.”
― Matthew Norman, Domestic Violets

“The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“This is the first year for me as a teacher and, by the looks of this class, I’m hoping it won’t be my last.”
― Phil Wohl, Darius and the Vanilla Funk

“The only trouble was that the scripture master, Mr. Ebenzar, was a fanatic.”
― R.K. Narayan, Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

“If he(Mani) were Swaminathan, he would have closed the whole incident at the beginning by hurling an ink-bottle, if nothing bigger was available, at the teacher.”
― R.K. Narayan, Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith