What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
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.
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It’s not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We’ve got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.
There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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.’
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
