Teacher Quotes

• Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Teacher
  • Enemy

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

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Control
  • Lawlessness

• The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Role
  • Content
  • Provider

• Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Children
  • Age
  • Enemy

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Littles

• The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Effort
  • Cheer
  • Unselfish

• My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Good Teacher

• I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Teacher
  • Teach
  • Qualified

• My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Grow Up
  • Assignment

• There are some folks at the teacher's union who aren't big fans of mine, in part, because I have been open and want to make sure everybody is sitting at the table as we talk about education.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Education
  • Teacher

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

  

  Shah Rukh Khan
  • Good
  • Success
  • Failure

• I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Teacher
  • Colleges
  • Craftsman

• Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Help
  • Courage
  • Hero

• I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

  

  Burl Ives
  • Teacher
  • Door
  • Broken

• I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • School
  • Science
  • Past

• I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

  

  Charles Best
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• I'm glad I was a teacher.

  

  John Wooden
  • Teacher

• That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Day

• I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Pet

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