It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Experience is a great teacher.
So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
A child’s first teacher is its mother.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
My brother’s my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
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.
If you improve a teacher’s self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher’s overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn’t serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can’t be taught.
Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.
In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
‘Expect nothing and hope for the best’ is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it’s the best advice I’ve had. If you keep an open mind and don’t expect too much, then you won’t be disappointed.
