Good Teacher Quotes - Page 8

• Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Children, Freedom

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think good teachers are underpaid.

  Peter Brimelow

  Teacher, Thinking, Underpaid

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• As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.

  Rachel Hurd-Wood

  Teacher, Children, Kids

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• In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Teacher, Winning

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• If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, School, Agreement

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• I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Believe, Order

  "Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

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• Questions to ask yourself: Are you a good teacher? Who would know? You would. Your students. Your friends. Your God. Not a bad audience, that!

  Joe J. Christensen

  Friendship, Teacher, Students

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• It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

  Yip Man

  Teacher, Students, Difficult

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• A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

  Hosur Narasimhaiah

  Teacher, School, Average

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• Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Teacher, Great Teacher, Teach

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• Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.

  Paula Creamer

  Teacher, Fun, Disappointment

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• There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.

  Sugata Mitra

  Country, Teacher, School

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• All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teacher, Causes

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• The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech." Behind their fearful silence, our students want to find their voices, speak their voices, have their voices heard. A good teacher is one who can listen to those voices even before they are spoken-so that someday they can speak with truth and confidence.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Teaching, Voice

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.47, John Wiley & Sons

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• You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Teacher, Focus, Be Good

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• A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.

  Pope Francis

  Teacher, Children, Joy

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• A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Teacher, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.90, Tuttle Publishing

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• I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, p.5, Basic Books

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• To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

  William James

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Teacher, Helping, Maximum

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• Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.

  Richard Hamming

  Teacher, Doors, Apples

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• Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

  Evan Esar

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Inspirational, Teacher, Names

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• We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Teaching, Should

  Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.61, South End Press

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