Good Teacher Quotes - Page 6

• The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

  Stephen Neal

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• People should find what approach really speaks to them, and then do it. Obviously, better with a good teacher, who can help you on the path. But in any case, basic principles.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teacher, People, Path

  Source: fpmt.org

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• As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Teaching, Curiosity

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures”, p.135, MIT Press

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• We need more good jobs, and that means we've got to start educating young people, starting literally in the first five years of life making sure that every kid in every zip code has good teachers and good schools, making college affordable, helping people pay down their debt.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Jobs, School

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• I like to remind teachers that even though they're all overwhelmed and overloaded, and it's easy to get burned out, it really is about the kids. It only takes one good teacher to change a life - one time, and one book. That's what happened when I was a kid. I had one good teacher that came in at the right time and turned me into a writer. So never lose sight - you could be that teacher.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself. Spray paint is impossible. They say it takes a decade to really learn spray paint and be good with it. I've been at it about ten years now and am now really just getting good and confident with it.

  Alec Monopoly

  Mom, Teacher, Home

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com.

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• Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Giving Up, Tests

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Brenda Ueland

  Teacher, Love You, Thinking

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

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• At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Education, Teacher, Encouragement

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• Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters and are getting good preschool, and by the time they get into school they've got a good teacher and are getting the support that they need and are able to keep up with their classwork, that is going to do more to reduce the incarceration rate at the same time, obviously, as it increases the college enrollment rate.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, School, Boys

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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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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• A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

  Anthony de Mello

  Teacher, Practice, Theory

  "One Minute Wisdom". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1989.

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• Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

  Bel Kaufman

  Teacher, Mind, Needs

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.203, Open Road Media

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• A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Teacher, Teaching, Levels

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 43e), 1980.

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• Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

  Marilyn Wallace

  Teacher, Enlightened, Very Good

  Marilyn Wallace (1992). “So Shall You Reap”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• 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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  A good teacher creates an environment which allows the student to succeed.

  Bill Parcells

  Teacher, Succeed, Students

  Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books

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• He [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.

  Miriam Makeba

  Teacher, Advice, Trying

  "The long goodbye". Interview with Robin Denselow, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

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• A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

  Paul Halmos

  Teacher, Teaching, Challenges

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• I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Teacher, Brother, Listening

  "It's good being Ricky Skaggs these days". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 26, 2012.

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• Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Want

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• Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Challenges

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• The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions, they ask you questions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Independent

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• Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Teacher, Laughter, Opportunity

  William Hazlitt (2004). “On the Pleasure of Hating”, p.31, Penguin UK

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