Great Teacher Quotes - Page 7

• Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

  Julie Andrews

  Teacher, School, Opportunity

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• I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Teacher, Giving, Nina

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Part of being a great restaurant chef is having an ability to bring all those people together, rather like a captain on a rugby field or a coach. It's also being a great teacher, because I'm only one person in a kitchen of 10 and I need to be able to bring all those people together and to teach them. I need to be able to communicate my thoughts and my process to them.

  Paul Rankin

  Teacher, People, Kitchen

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.

  Paul Rankin

  Teacher, Elements, Crafts

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Look at Senegal, about 90% of the Muslims in Senegal are Tijani or Qadiri Sufis. Among them, they have very great teachers who have written poems about al-Hallaj, and they have not been killed. In fact, it's Sufism that brought Islam through all of Senegal, right under our noses the last couple of centuries. And you can go down the same line through Indonesia and Malaysia.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Teacher, Couple, Islam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .

  John Welwood

  Teacher, Self, Discipline

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• Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.

  Wallace Stegner

  Teacher, Fall, Sight

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• If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Teacher, Love You

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

  Edward Eggleston

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.

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• History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Teacher, Simple, Labour Movement

  Speech to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL - CIO), December 11, 1961.

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• Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn out to be very great teachers. Sometimes my life has been a quest for a grail of knowledge and education. Like Parsifal, my life has been a quest to pierce the veil, stumbling along but eventually finding it.

  Jean Houston

  Teacher, Reality, Islands

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I had a great year with Bob Mintzer [at Laguardia School of Arts]. Bob is great. We could have just brought the clarinet or dealt with classical stuff, or brought the flute or just dealt with comp and arranging... what a great teacher.

  Jon Gordon

  Teacher, Art, School

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• The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

  Carly Fiorina

  Teacher, Children, Choices

  "Can Carly Fiorina ride a 'defeat Clinton' strategy to the GOP nomination? Plus, Gen. Michael Hayden makes case for NSA terror tools". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2015.

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• Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His
  being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Son

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• Any great teacher is a great student.

  T. D. Jakes

  Teacher, Students

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• I think great teachers, which coaches are, are the ones that you hear.

  Alex Dodd

  Teacher, Thinking, Coaches

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• I had this great teacher, Milton Katselas, who was this loud Greek who had directed Bette Davis and Liv Ullmann, and brought Edward Albee to this country. He said, "Why do you keep trying to be a Rolex watch when you're the salt of the earth?" Except he said it much louder.

  Beth Grant

  Country, Teacher, Greek

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every human being needs to know to be a great parent, for a teacher to be a great teacher, and for a business partner to be a great business partner. We can't fall back on, "Oh, I only said it once and it didn't matter." That kind of phrase. That's a not-good thing for a leader to hold inside. If what that leader did is do that separation and this person now knew that they were not going to be on the popular team, doing it once and then not doing it again isn't enough to erase what just happened.

  Judith E. Glaser

  Teacher, Team, Fall

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Teacher, Pain, Soul

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• Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.

  Herbie Hancock

  Teacher, People, Identity

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• Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Teacher, World Suffering, Literature

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• I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Teacher, Thinking

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• Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Inspirational, Teacher, Fear

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• Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Teacher, Loneliness

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• To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

  Ken Robinson

  Teacher, Art, Educational

  "Why We Need to Reform Education Now". "Why We Need to Reform Education Now" by Ken Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2013.

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