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

There is no better teacher than history in determining the future… There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

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

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...

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.

Lightning doesn’t thunder twice. Let that be a lesson in love.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child’s mind, he does...

She’s a librarian, Sim said. They’re not teachers; don’t give you half as much hassle. If there’s a fire in the school and I’ve got to choose who I’m gonna save – a teacher or...

When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.

Alexander Hamilton Junior High School– SEMESTER REPORT — STUDENT: Joseph MargolisTEACHER: Janet HicksENGLISH: A, ARITHMETIC: A, SOCIAL STUDIES: A, SCIENCE: A, NEATNESS: A, PUNCTUALITY: A, PARTICIPATION: A, OBEDIENCE: DTeacher’s Comments:Joseph remains a challenging student. While...

It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he had exactly the kind of body that most appealed to her, tall and...

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and ‘caning’ sounds more English than ‘having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.

It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, ‘God, I have done all that...

When red fights with white, pink is always the winner. Let that be a lesson in love.

He sat at his desk – last seat, last row – and looked at the chart on the wall next to him. Of course there was no gold star next to his name. He had...

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you – that’s my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage...

Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.

There was once an abbot who had spent thirty-nine years alone in the temple with cats as his only companions. As someone who believed that faith and willpower could conquer any difficulty, the abbot began...

This was fast becoming messy war with our hall now covered in foam and a puddle of green slime…

Sorry I’m late.

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,...

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

When we were little,” the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, “we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle –...

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.

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

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

Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.

I can see myself in my teacher’s eyes. I look like a pupil.

It’s much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who’s made a few mistakes. It’s impossible to learn it from someone who always gets it right.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn’t teach you everything I know.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

If a teacher teaches you what to think, but not how to think, it is not a true education.

The best teacher you’ll ever have is yourself. I’m not your teacher! I’m here only to show you the way towards what you already know, and also, show you a way to find out what...

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.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love.

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...

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

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I believe that everyone is a hero, a leader, a volunteer, a teacher and a champion of change. All we need to do is acknowledge and understand this and then help others to also understand...

You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won’t just happen automatically.” I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives.

As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I’m superb. It’s comforting to know my place in the world.

Little bit,” she said.

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.

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...