Good Teacher Quotes - Page 7

• Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

  Julia Glass

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

  Goliarda Sapienza

  Teacher, Distance, Loss

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• When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Teacher, Years, Voice

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• Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

  Keith Emerson

  Teacher, Children, Son

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• When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

  Bono

  Teacher, Jesus, Nice

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• The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

  Eli Broad

  Teacher, School, Practice

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• There are few master teachers in life. ... But there are many who can listen to life so well that they can hear the vastness in everything and in you. A teacher is someone who has learned to listen to life. Someone who has found a way to listen well. Any real teacher is only a finger pointing. In the end, we may find out more by not following our teachers but by following what our teachers follow for themselves. From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secrets of life. You will have to listen for yourself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Teacher, Real, Secret

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• Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Baby, Teacher, Artist

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.186, Ultramarine Publishing

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• A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

  Eva Amurri

  Teacher, Zero, Kids

  Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2012.

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• From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Teacher, Secret

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• The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

  Brenda Ueland

  Teacher, Attitude, Love You

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather, he will try to discover the correct idea behind the inadequate expression. This is one of the most important principles in the whole of the art of teaching.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Education, Teacher, Art

  W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Vision in Elementary Mathematics”, Courier Corporation

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• What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect each one of us in our daily lives—what kind of [buildings] we live in, what kind of clothes we wear, what we see with our eyes. We are often blind to the beautiful things around us. What I'm mostly concerned about is how often we're blind to our own talent. I think that within each human being there is a creative spirit, and some of us have been fortunate enough to have good teachers and parents who've brought this out and encouraged it, but others haven't.

  Joan Mondale

  Beautiful, Teacher, Art

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• I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

  James A. Michener

  Teacher, Growing Up, Believe

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• Study, find all the good teachers and study with them, get involved in acting to act, not to be famous or for the money. Do plays. It's not worth it if you are just in it for the money. You have to love it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Teacher, Play, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.

  Lowell Milken

  Motivational, Teacher, Oxygen

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• I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

  Erin Gruwell

  Teacher, Blessed, Teaching

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• The need to assure that every child has the opportunity afforded by good teachers is urgent. As urgent as the need to be well nourished and for exactly the same reason. A child's growth depends on it.

  Lowell Milken

  Teacher, Children, Opportunity

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• It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Taken, Use

  "Letters of C. S. Lewis" by C. S. Lewis, (p. 247), 1966.

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• A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

  Steve Almond

  Teacher, Parent, Who We Are

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• ... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

  Bel Kaufman

  Teacher, Teaching, Happy Family

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Teacher, Drama, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.

  Jane Rule

  Love, Teacher, Kindness

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• I wasn't a very good teacher.

  Amos Lee

  Teacher, Very Good

  "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

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