Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

teacher

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. 8 wisdom & wit from Dr. Seuss

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. 4 other sayings from Rosa Luxemburg

Experience is the teacher of all things. 12 quotes from Julius Caesar

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 105 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Albert Einstein

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. 2 quotes from Simon Newcomb

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. 16 other quotes from Henny Youngman

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. 21 other views from William Wordsworth

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater. 38 quotes 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 more wisdom & wit from Anatole France

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

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. 52 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. 22 views 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 thoughts from Horace Mann

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. 30 views from Walt Whitman

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 other 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 other quotes from Mary Augusta Ward

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. 59 wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. 31 thoughts from Helen Keller

A good teacher is a determined person. 2 other views from Gilbert Highet

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. 2 views 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 sayings from Eric Hoffer

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. 11 sayings 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 quotes from Gracie Allen

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. 4 views from Felix Adler

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

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 quotes from Max Beerbohm

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 sayings from Allan Bloom

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. 4 quotes from Arthur Koestler

Those who know how to think need no teachers. 100 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 other quotes from Shinichi Suzuki

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher. 3 wisdom & wit from John Philip Sousa

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust. 3 other sayings from Gertrude Jekyll

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. 13 more sayings from Amos Bronson Alcott

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 thoughts from Alan Shepard

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. 3 views from Sidney Hook

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. 3 wisdom & wit 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 more sayings 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 more sayings from Swami Vivekananda

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. 4 thoughts from George Farquhar

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. 4 other wisdom & wit from George Farquhar

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. 4 thoughts from Minna Antrim

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

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 sayings from Quintilian

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. 14 sayings from William Arthur Ward

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another. 14 quotes from Loretta Young

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. 2 thoughts from Wallace Stegner

A teacher is a person who never says anything once. 9 thoughts from Howard Nemerov

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 teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops. 22 quotes from Henry Adams

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. 14 wisdom & wit from Bertolt Brecht

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. 25 other views from Simone Weil

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. 45 more thoughts from John Ruskin

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. 21 sayings from W. H. Auden

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. 31 more wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein