Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Giroux

Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test...

Hector Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un maître inhumain qui tue ses élèves.)

Heber J. Grant

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

Heber J. Grant

I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President of the Church. I read this chapter about once a week for quite a while, then once a month for several months. I thought I needed it in my business, so to speak; that it was one of the things that were necessary for my advancement.

Hedy Lamarr

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Henry David Thoreau

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Henry Ford

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Mandy Patinkin

Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

Malcolm X

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

Malcolm X

We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go

Malcolm X

When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

Mahatma Gandhi

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.

John C. Maxwell

The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.

John C. Maxwell

Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something.

John C. Maxwell

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

John C. Maxwell

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

John C. Maxwell

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

John Adams

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

Jaclyn Smith

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Jack Welch

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Hartley Coleridge

Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

Harvey Cushing

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

Harvey Keitel

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

Eric Hoffer

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

James Franco

My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

James Franco

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

James Franco

As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.

James Cash Penney

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

James Anthony Froude

Mistakes are often the best teachers.