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
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 more thoughts 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 more thoughts from John Philip Sousa
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. 13 wisdom & wit from Amos Bronson Alcott
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. 3 views from Sidney Hook
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. 3 quotes from Hector Berlioz
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. 3 more wisdom & wit from Sidney Hook
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 wisdom & wit from Swami Vivekananda
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 quotes from Quintilian
Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another. 14 thoughts from Loretta Young
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. 4 quotes from Minna Antrim
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. 14 more wisdom & wit from William Arthur Ward
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 other thoughts from Khalil Gibran
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. 4 more wisdom & wit from George Farquhar
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. 4 other sayings from George Farquhar
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. 25 wisdom & wit from Simone Weil
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 world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. 14 quotes from Bertolt Brecht
A teacher is a person who never says anything once. 9 more wisdom & wit from Howard Nemerov
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. 2 more views from Wallace Stegner
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. 45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. 31 views from Gertrude Stein
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops. 22 views from Henry Adams
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. 21 quotes from W. H. Auden
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. 2 other views from Simon Newcomb
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
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. 3 more thoughts from Josef Albers
Love is a better teacher than duty. 105 other views from Albert Einstein
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. 4 more quotes from Rosa Luxemburg
Experience is the teacher of all things. 12 other quotes from Julius Caesar
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. 16 wisdom & wit from Henny Youngman
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater. 38 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Anatole France
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. 21 quotes from William Wordsworth
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. 30 more quotes from Walt Whitman
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. 11 more sayings from Horace Mann
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. 22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. 11 more quotes from Horace Mann
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. 2 wisdom & wit from Gilbert Highet
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. 59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. 59 wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. 31 sayings from Helen Keller
A good teacher is a determined person. 2 more sayings from Gilbert Highet
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. 2 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 more quotes from Mary Augusta Ward
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 quotes from William Osler
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. 31 views from Eric Hoffer
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. 4 quotes 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 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 views 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 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 more quotes from Allan Bloom
Every child grows everything depends on the teacher. 4 thoughts from Shinichi Suzuki
Those who know how to think need no teachers. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. 100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde