Teacher Quotes - Page 35

• Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are become teachers of free will, and defenders of your own righteousness

  John Knox

  Jesus, Men, Grace

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• Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sleep, Enemy, Fields

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.120, John Wiley & Sons

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• You are the most boring teacher ever." He grinned and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek, just as a knock sounded at the door. "It all depends on what you me to teach you.

  Richelle Mead

  Kissing, Doors, Boring

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• Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

  Louis L'Amour

  Children, Book, School

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• Spring has again returned.
  The Earth is like a child that knows many poems.
  Many, O so many. For the hardship
  of such long learning she receives the prize.
  
  Strict was her teacher.
  The white in the old man's beard pleases us.
  Now, what to call green, to call blue,
  we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Spring, Men

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• Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes.

  Darren Shan

  Teaching, Appreciate, Waiting

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• Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

  Rob Sheffield

  Teenager, Madly In Love

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.72, Penguin

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• Physician, heal thyself. Teacher, teach yourself.

  John of Kronstadt

  Humility, Physicians, Heal

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• If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

  Saul Bellow

  Women, Ability, Expected

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• Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Humility, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2751, Delphi Classics

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• But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.

  William James

  Philosophy, Spring, Educational

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Soft rock music isn't rock, and it ain't music. It's just soft. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, "You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala."

  George Carlin

  Stupid, Rocks, People

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• Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly all paranormals!" "Tasey!" I countered. "Hot pink and sparkly!

  Kiersten White

  Fighting, Self, Knives

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• He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been scum who live by their own rules. No one has ever taught him otherwise.” “Am I to forgive?” she said, her voice shaking with anger. “No,” he said sadly. “Pity him. Or give him new rules. Or put him down like a wild animal before he becomes a monster who destroys everything he encounters.

  Melina Marchetta

  Animal, Voice, Giving

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• It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.

  Amy Hempel

  Liars, Drinking, School

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• Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Personality, Creative

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

  Robin Sharma

  Regret, Inspirational Life, Past

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• The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up And I said: Teacher, I’m weary of the turkeys That we have to draw every fall. May I draw a fox instead? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up once more and said: Teacher, My heart is falling asleep And it wants to wake up. It needs to be outside. Sit down, he said.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.27, Beacon Press

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• In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

  Roald Dahl

  Mother, Children, Father

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden.

  Shannon Miller

  Sibling, Gymnastics, Parent

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• My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.

  Donald Miller

  Children, School, Sunday

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

  Eberhard Arnold

  Nature, Children, Eye

  Eberhard Arnold (1997). “God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom”, p.137, The Plough Publishing House

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• Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

  David Mitchell

  Jobs, Hate, Together

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• Remember the three rules of vampire hunting. One: Never, ever look them in the eyes. Two: Never, ever give up your cross. Three: Aim for the head and heart. Even with silver ammo, it won't be a killing blow anywhere else." I felt like a kindergarten teacher sending her kiddies off to a hostile playground. "Don't panic if you get bitten. The bite can be cleansed. As long as they don't mesmerize you with their eyes, you can still fight.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving Up, Heart, Eye

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.1855, Penguin

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• But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.

  Laurie R. King

  Husband, Hair, Wife

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