Teacher Quotes

“-Du skjønner det, frøken, at når en har en mamma som er engel og en pappa som er negerkonge det her e så fantastisk, og når en selv har seilt rundt på havet hele livet, så vet en ikke hvordan en skal oppføre seg blant alle eplene og piggsvinene.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Långstrump börjar skolan

“The human mind is an incredible thing. It can conceive of the magnificence of the heavens and the intricacies of the basic components of matter. Yet for each mind to achieve its full potential, it needs a spark. The spark of enquiry and wonder.
Often that spark comes from a teacher. Allow me to explain. I wasn’t the easiest person to teach, I was slow to learn to read and my handwriting was untidy. But when I was fourteen my teacher at my school in St Albans, Dikran Tahta, showed me how to harness my energy and encouraged me to think creatively about mathematics. He opened my eyes to maths as the blueprint of the universe itself. If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher. When each of us thinks about what we can do in life, chances are we can do it because of a teacher.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“Bad instructors teach you what to think, worse ones teach you how to think, but the good ones teach you how important it is to learn to think for yourself.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“When a teacher is a friend/relatable;
it creates an invisible layer of accountability.
Making the student a better student
and in turn the teacher a better teacher.”
― Ethan Castro

“You will not be able to learn something extraordinary till you meet an extraordinary teacher!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Behind the moustache there lived an inflamed and savage face with a deeply corrugated brow that indicated a very limited intelligence. ‘Life is a puzzlement,’ the corrugated brow seemed to be saying, ‘and the world is a dangerous place. All men are enemies and small boys are insects that will turn and bite you if you don’t get them first and squash them hard.”
― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood

“El Maestro: Do not attack the strings, Francisco.
Francisco Presto: No, Maestro.
El Maestro: Coax them.
Francisco Presto: Yes, Maestro.
El Maestro: Make them hunger for your next note. Same as in life.
Francisco Presto: In life, Maestro?
El Maestro: When you want someone to listen to you, will you attack them?
Francisco Presto: No, Maestro.
El Maestro: No, you will not. you will make them hear the beauty of what you are offering, and they will want it for themselves.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“The work of a teacher is more about working on the mind and the shaping of destinies than it is about the writings on the board and the notes in the bags.”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“I am not a writer, a philosopher, or a great figure of intellectual life. I am a teacher. […] My role is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes that have been built up at a certain moment in history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed. To change something in the minds of people—that is the role of an intellectual.”
― Michel Foucault

“Every single loss, every single humiliation, teaches us to strive for
more. Failure is the best teacher”
― Sapan Saxena, The Tenth Riddle

“Ask yourselves a question “Over 6,000 years old Guru-Shishya tradition survived, rather still prevalent and thriving, is due to whose passion - Guru’s or Shishyas’?” Only those who dedicate themselves to Guru’s Passion make history eventually!”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“Life is the only teacher. We are all students learning the teachings of life.”
― Avijeet Das

“Life is the only teacher. We are all students learning from the teachings of life.”
― Avijeet Das

“Once you have met your guru, you are done for. Once you have fallen in love with a guru, there’s no going back. Oh, you can, for sure, leave. You can even say that you hate them. Worse, you can say you were mistaken and that they aren’t your guru at all. But you can never really leave. The magnetic love of a true guru will always be with you because gurus never stop loving their chosen ones. If you come to them and they say yes, the guru knows that whatever stupid thing you may (and probably will) do, they will not stop loving you. Never. Ever. They cannot escape from you and so it is only fair that you cannot escape from them either.”
― Donna Goddard, Prana

“Reality can be brutal, but it’s also the best teacher.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“Whatever we are devoted to, we merge with.”
― Donna Goddard, Prana

“My approach to teaching diverse Learners in the classroom is to meet their needs in the least obvious way possible so that they don't stick out as 'different'.”
― Susan A. Gingras Fitzell

“Once you enter our classroom, you enter our heart forever.”
― DohRob

“I remember clearly the professor who introduced me to Buddhist and Hindu thought. As a final exam, she took all five of us students to a remote weekend retreat facility and issued the rules: no speaking allowed, and no clocks or wristwatches. During the night she would awaken a student, ask the student to assume a yogic position, then ask questions: How does a Christian speak about the nature of God? How does a Buddhist speak about the nature of reality? What is the truth of eternal life? What is the purpose of this life? The questions were deep and penetrating. It wasn’t the quality of our responses that she
was evaluating; rather, it was our attachment to any particular school of thought. If she sensed that we were attached to one form of truth more than another, we had failed to learn the lesson of her class: All truth is the same at the level of truth itself. That it becomes “enculturated” is an illusion. For her, this was the essence of what it means to become conscious: to seek truth that is detached from its social or cultural form. In looking back at her influence upon me, I credit her with laying the groundwork for my own abilities in symbolic sight.”
― Caroline Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.”
― Tom Esser

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Teaching can give good way for the budding talents.”
― Thomas Esser

“One of my favorite things about teaching is being there to witness someone become what they JUST told you they weren’t.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“A teacher can make or break a child's mindset and personality”
― Anamika Mishra

“The biggest teacher is life is one's own experience”
― Anamika Mishra, Dreamcatcher

“A TEACHER is more valuable than a PREACHER.”
― Dr Sivakumar Gowder

“Communicating thoughts is as easy as the alphabet, and so much more paramount-- for people to know each other, to become close, to become friends.”
― Vidhu Kapur, DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?

“Be such a student that when you go to a teacher, the teacher will feel himself like a student!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is no good or bad Karma, there is only destiny, no matter how good you are or how bad you are, one day your judgement day will punish you like a bad teacher.”
― Andy Paik ( Davinder Singh )

“I still have to keep making friends, since in this new life,
life alters itself even before you know it.
This, I learnt quite early on, that it is rather better to stay equipped, so, it helps to adapt readily to the inevitable life change.
It helps to not mop over the whats and whys on such shake-ups.”
― Vidhu Kapur, DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?

“I smile with who I have,
how I have them in my life,
and
how I have learnt to see the difference amongst both the scenarios
to unequivocally understand that none is any less.”
― Vidhu Kapur, DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?