Great Teacher Quotes - Page 9

• Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students to higher levels of excellence. They shun mere conformity and expect their students to think and perform to their ever-increasing potential.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, School, Thinking

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• Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

  Carrie Fisher

  Depression, Teacher, Challenges

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• I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

  Judy Collins

  Teacher, New York, Grateful

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• What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious

  Joseph Epstein

  Teacher, Teaching, Satisfaction

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• Osho is one of India's greatest mystics.... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.

  Kabir Bedi

  Teacher, Community, Vision

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• Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Teacher, School, Medicine

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• Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Pain, Mistake

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.4, Advaita Ashrama

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• I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.

  Alfred Doblin

  Teacher, Thinking, Inspire

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• Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Teacher, Students, Wanted

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• William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.

  Jill Ker Conway

  Teacher, Book, Discipline

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• Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Children, School

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• The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly. Where most generations focus the education of their children on preparing to make a living or succeed financially, leadership generations are taught by parents who see a higher role for their children.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Children, Focus

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• Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

  N. T. Wright

  Teacher, Church, Vices

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• A great teacher makes hard things easy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Easy, Hard

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• There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

  Joshua Bell

  Teacher, Play, Hearing

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

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• All of modern acting comes from Stanislavski, who was the Russian partner to Chekhov. When Chekhov was writing his plays, Stanislavski was running his theater. And Stanislavski really was the first inventor of modern acting and then everything that came out of the method and Stella Adler and the great teachers really came out of him.

  Annette Bening

  Running, Teacher, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You would make a great teacher. (Grace) Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you’re at it? (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Teacher, Grace, Why Not

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.162, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Don't swear at your past; you couldn't existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Teacher, Past, Today And Tomorrow

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• Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Self, Choices

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• Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

  James C. Collins

  Teacher, Winning, Games

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• A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

  William Arthur Ward

  Teacher, Inspire, Good Teacher

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• Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, Teacher, Art

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• A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.

  Edmund Ware Sinnott

  Teacher, School, College

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• I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.

  Juliette Binoche

  Mother, Teacher, Class

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

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• I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery. I had a great teacher - I can't even remember her name now. I ended up going to boarding school for my last high school years and they had a dark room there. Of course there was curfew; you were supposed to be in bed at a certain time. But I would sneak out and sneak into the dark room and work all night.

  Jeff Vespa

  Photography, Teacher, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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