I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I touch the future. I teach.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.