Category: Quotes About Teacher

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. -George Farquhar

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. -Edmond H. Fischer

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies. -Dakota Fanning

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. -Huston Smith

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so…

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student. -James Galway

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power. -Tom Brown, Jr.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing. -Michael Gove

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka. -Krist Novoselic

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me. -Devon Sawa

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. -Harvey Keitel

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. -Henri Frederic Amiel

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.' -Miles Teller

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. -Niklaus Wirth

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school. -Tim Gunn

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little. -Phil McGraw

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. -Woody Allen

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so. -Beverly Cleary

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. -Xun Zi

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it. -Katarina Witt

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. -Temple Grandin