Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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

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

I touch the future. I teach.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

A good teacher is a determined person.

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the 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.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

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'.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

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.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

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

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

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.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.