teacher quotes

“Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.”

— Robin Williams

“I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.”

— Woody Allen

“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.”

“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”

“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

“Experience is the teacher of all things. ”

— Julius Caesar

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

— Helen Keller

“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.”

— Warren Buffett

“I wanted to be a teacher.”

— Kim Kardashian

“Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

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

— Horace Mann

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

— Horace Mann

“We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.”

— Michelle Obama

“Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.”

— Colin Powell

“Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.”

— Mitt Romney

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.”

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

“You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.”

— Charles Stanley

“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.”

— John Steinbeck

“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”

— Walt Whitman

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

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

— Alexander the Great

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

— William Wordsworth