Wonderful Teacher Quotes

• As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

  Bill Moyers

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

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• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

  Dan Rather

  Thank You, Education, Dream

  Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

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• A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Thank You, Appreciation, Teacher

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Teacher, Wonderful

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.774, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

  Helen Caldicott

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

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• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teacher, Appreciation, Educational

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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• There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.

  Robin Sharma

  Teacher, Pain, Powerful

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.42, Jaico Publishing House

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• I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.

  Donald Trump

  Teacher, Adversity, Thinking

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Life is a wonderful teacher who teaches us every lesson about how to survive in this world.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Teacher, World, Lessons

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• Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Wonderful, Drill Sergeant

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• I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

  Jane Goodall

  Teacher, Teaching, Animal

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• I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

  Jane Goodall

  Dog, Teacher, Animal

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• All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.

  Louise Hay

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Teacher, Good Friend, Kind

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

  Florence Nightingale

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Source: imperialismeraflorencenightingale.blogspot.com

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