What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he’s not… you know, better.””Define BETTER with that guy.””Not all fangs and raaaaar.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with each other, and no connection at all with anything else....

1. Do what you say you’re gonna do 2. Show up! 3. Give genuine praise whenever you can 4. Never say sorry when you don’t mean it 5. Never use sarcasm in email (and use...

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly…he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science…Possibly in one or...

But their bodies will help other plants grow.

If I offer you a glass of water, and bring back a cup of ice, I’m trying to teach you patience. And also that sometimes you get ice with no water, and later you’ll get...

Experience is the best teacher I’ve ever had. I’m sorry, Mr. Sortz, but it’s true.

We have created a culture of reading poverty in which a vicious cycle of aliteracy has the potential to devolve into illiteracy for many students. By allowing students to pass through our classrooms without learning...

A scientist doesn’t know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.

This is the first year for me as a teacher and, by the looks of this class, I’m hoping it won’t be my last.

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...

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

You can choose to have life as your teacher or to make life your student

We can say that the people closest to God are teachers who devoted themselves to being beneficial to others. For they are the ones who build the human; they are the ones who build the...

The students lurked on the edges of their teachers’ lives for years, and brought bulletins from their own lives, which over time began to include lovers, ambitions, an upward trajectory.

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)

Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs...

In life pain is a teacher you will never forget

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information….The key is the teacher.

Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.

never use sarcasm in an email

I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight

Remember, you are the true guru of yourself. You are therefore always with Guru – your soul. However, at various stages you meet mentors. Mentors are like lighthouse who supports navigation in a journey called...

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

His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age...

It’s iron that can sharpen iron; wood cannot do that.

The truth is that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a miracle, and later we are lost amidst the multitude of teachings and dogmas. After...

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh…

Turn a major mistake into a master mentor, learn from it.

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;...

The teacher you need is the person you’re living with.

None should say: ‘I can trust’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

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

A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same...

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

I was maybe 19 years old. And I always remember that it was a great feeling of happiness. Because of that, I said to Myles that it’s no different for me if I am read­ing...

I think I’d fall for you no matter what, Claire. You’re kind of awesome.

Well we’re waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved…So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they...

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

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...

Never give up on horses, they are the only humans that don’t speak.

Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!

Experience is the best teacher.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

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.