Teacher Quotes

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society – nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

I’m looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’

Teacher, there are things that I don’t want to learn.

Gratitude to all the coaches, teachers and mentors of the game who helped me understand this game better.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we’d never go on our own.

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.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.