I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can’t relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he’ll never be a competent teacher.
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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.
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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.
I’m lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals’, the ones who somehow know how to teach.
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I’m lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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.
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.
If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don’t honor them enough, we don’t pay them enough.
We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
