A Student is the most important person ever in this school…in person, on the telephone, or by mail.A Student is not dependent on us…we are dependent on the Student.A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student…the Student is...

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

How’d you get to be so good at this?””I had a good teacher.””Better not have been Myrnin or I’ll have to kick his predatory ass.””I mean you, dummy.””Oh.

He’s not doing anything he shouldn’t be doing, right?” “Like what?””Like hitting on you.””Ew. No, of course not. He doesn’t see me that way.” Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee.”What? You think he does?””Sometimes he looks at you a little… oddly, that’s all. Maybe you’re right. Maybe he just wants you...

A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning.

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.

I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness...

Those who study the universe have time for a teacher.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready… The teacher will Disappear.

There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher.

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

There are times when even I, a mere cat, can put two thoughts together. “Teachers have it easy. If you are born a human, it’s best to become a teacher. For if it’s possible to sleep this much and still to be a teacher, why, even a cat could teach” However, according to the master,...

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but to some possession of its power of utterance. The ultimate aim is an ethical and participating aim, not an aesthetic...

Love isn’t stackable and interlocking, like boxes or Legos. Love is like a one-legged man standing on a three-legged chair that is placed on top of a two-legged piano. I should know, because I’m the guy trying to tune that piano, fix that chair, and affix a prosthetic leg to that guy—who happens to be...

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive phase of the work. … A good teacher should understand and impress on his students the view that no problem...

Trails are used by God to teach you humility and dependence on His grace rather than your own strength.

It’s why I went into teaching in the first place. I like the sound of my own voice. Well that, and I am addicted to the smell of chalk and white-board markers.

Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.

I am not a teacher, I am a friend who cares.

It is ok to be a teacher but it is great to be an educator.

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.

Children want the same things we want.To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

Before I’ll take my clone on as a pupil in the craft of writing, he must prove his worthiness. He must write 100 thoughts down, of which 10 might be interesting. If he’s done that, good, then he must write 1,000 thoughts, of which 200 might be interesting. If he’s done that, good, then he...

It has truly been said that ‘Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

To be so bent on Marriage – to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation – is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be...

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

It is the ‘Teacher’, that shapes a novice; not only with his studies, but character too.

Love is a word, another kind of open.As the diamond comesinto a knot of flameI am Blackbecause I come from the earth’s insidetake my word for jewelin the open light.

By-passing all scriptures and all that any teacher has to say, we shall, while respecting every finger that points to the moon, be mindful only of the moon. This habit will make it easier to understand the truth that every statement is wrong, whenever made by any man, for it was made in duality and...

I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline – yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true...

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:”Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more...

The older I get, the more I realize that I am not just the student, but I am my own teacher as well.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called life and taught by a teacher who is none other than self-experience only.

I’ll train and train and become the best, then I’ll lead all the other warriors!

Get Ready, Get Ready!

Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way. When we consider the development of chemistry as a whole, Ostwald’s name like Abou ben Adhem’s leads all the rest … Ostwald was absolutely the right man in the right place. He was...

Little bit,” she said.

I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. “I doubt you have the capacity.

…teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.