A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.
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.
You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.
They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.
When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
We learn by teaching.
Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
A new yogi doesn't handstand on their first try, and a new teacher doesn't start out as a headliner. Be patient, and trust it's all going to add up and unfold in due time.
I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. ” (p. 275)
As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain (kind of) and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard.
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. . . . But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own. . . He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.