Quotes for Teacher

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Christa McAuliffe

We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

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

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

James D. Watson

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

Gretchen Rubin

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Charles Kuralt

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.

Deval Patrick

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

William Osler

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

Marilynne Robinson

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

Michael Bennet

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Soren Kierkegaard

You cannot be an educator or a teacher without relating to children with full insight. Their urge to imitate has been transformed into a receptivity based on a natural and uncontested relationship of authority, and you must take this into account in the broadest possible sense.

Rudolf Steiner

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Gertrude Stein

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

Danica McKellar

I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.

Carrie Ann Inaba

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

Steven Chu

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

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Bodhidharma

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren Bennis