The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.
All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.
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 come out. " And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.
The best teachers are the best storytellers.
Although Christ in my mind is an absolute yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ. They're supposed to be representing Jesus, but they're not doing it very well. They're letting him down very badly, and that's a big turn off.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.
My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like. . . eternal hell.
Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.
Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY.
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.
Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.
My teachers used to call me a failure