We can teach a lot of things but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students he'll never be a competent teacher.
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
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.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
A good teacher like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention then he can teach his lesson.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
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.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Study how water flows in a valley stream smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains rivers plants and trees - should be your teacher.
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.
I am indebted to my father for living but to my teacher for living well.
A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
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.
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.
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.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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'.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons and the true teacher is the learner.
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.
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.
If you think your teacher is tough wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
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.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
In the depth of the near depression that he faced when he came in Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago these funds saved nearly 20 000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.