Quotes of Instructor - somelinesforyou

“ I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ”

- Charles W. Eliot

“ A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. - Henry B. Adams. ”

- Henry B. Adams

“ The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, The children are now working as if I did not exist. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. - Kahlil Gibran. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards. ”

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Horace Mann

“ Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. ”

- Socrates

“ Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ”

- Arthur Koestler

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

- William Wordsworth

“ 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. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944 The principle of sacrifice is that we choose to do or to suffer what apart from our love we should not choose to do or to suffer. ”

- William Temple

“ One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now. ”

- Fred Allen

“ Practice is the best of all instructors. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. ”

- Rosa Luxemburg

“ Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. ”

- Ken Keyes Jr.

“ Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. ”

- Karl Barth

“ He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ”

- Patricia Neal

“ A good teacher does not draw out; he gives out, and what he gives out is love. ”

- A. S. Neill

“ And so we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. ”

- Marshal Ferdinand Foch

“ We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen. ”

- Frank Rizzo

“ Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. ”

- Minna Thomas Antrim

“ One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ”

- George Herbert
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