Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater. 38 sayings from William Hazlitt
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 quotes from Anatole France
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. 21 thoughts from William Wordsworth
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. 22 sayings from Soren Kierkegaard
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. 11 other thoughts from Horace Mann
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. 11 sayings from Horace Mann
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. 52 sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. 30 sayings from Walt Whitman
A good teacher is a determined person. 2 more sayings from Gilbert Highet
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
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. 2 more quotes from Mark Van Doren
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. 59 other wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard
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
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. 31 quotes from Helen Keller
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. 2 more wisdom & wit from Gilbert Highet
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 quotes from Gracie Allen
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. 11 thoughts from William Osler
Experience is the teacher of all things. 12 more quotes from Julius Caesar
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. 31 thoughts from Eric Hoffer
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 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 quotes from Maria Montessori
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. 4 more quotes from Felix Adler
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. 4 more views 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 wisdom & wit from Allan Bloom
Those who know how to think need no teachers. 100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. 100 views from Oscar Wilde
Every child grows everything depends on the teacher. 4 views from Shinichi Suzuki
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 views from Alan Shepard
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher. 3 quotes from John Philip Sousa
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. 13 quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust. 3 quotes from Gertrude Jekyll
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. 3 other quotes from Hector Berlioz
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. 3 other quotes from Sidney Hook
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. 3 other quotes from Sidney Hook
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. 75 sayings from Aristotle
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
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. 14 quotes from William Arthur Ward
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. 4 quotes from George Farquhar
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 sayings from Swami Vivekananda
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. 4 other quotes from George Farquhar
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 wisdom & wit from Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. 4 more sayings from Minna Antrim
Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another. 14 other sayings from Loretta Young
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. 4 other quotes from Frederick William Robertson
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. 21 other wisdom & wit from W. H. Auden
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops. 22 more quotes from Henry Adams
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. 2 sayings from Wallace Stegner
A teacher is a person who never says anything once. 9 sayings from Howard Nemerov
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. 14 quotes 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 most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. 25 quotes from Simone Weil
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. 45 quotes from John Ruskin
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. 4 other thoughts from Rosa Luxemburg
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 105 more sayings 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 more quotes from Josef Albers
Love is a better teacher than duty. 105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. 16 wisdom & wit from Henny Youngman
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. 8 quotes from Dr. Seuss
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. 2 wisdom & wit from Simon Newcomb