Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him. In this way, a true teacher regards himself as a student of his students. If you will teach your pupils with this attitude, you will benefit much from them.

Mahatma Gandhi

A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

Gaby Hoffmann

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there’s $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she’ll get another paycheck. I have no idea,

Gail Carriger

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

Gail Carriger

She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at all times. At some point she'd learn why they also required a red lace doily and a lemon.

Fred W. Friendly

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Frank McCourt

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

Frank McCourt

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

Frank McCourt

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Julie London

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

Joseph Goebbels

I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

Julianne Moore

I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the one who told me I could be an actor. I had never met an actor, I had never seen a real play, only high school plays. I didn't know actors were real, that it was a real job.

Karl G. Maeser

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

Karl Jaspers

The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Kabir Bedi

Osho is one of India's greatest mystics.... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.

Joyce Cary

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Kara Lindsay

I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

Kanye West

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

June Squibb

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

Teachers ... preach "the superiority of the intelligence"; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.

Judy Collins

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

Patrick Stewart

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

Maggie Smith

I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.

Maggie Gallagher

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

Maggie Gallagher

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Maggie Gallagher

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

Maggie Gallagher

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

Mackenzie Astin

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

Macklemore

I learned from my teachers but became through my music

Madame de Stael

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.