The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons and the true teacher is the learner.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

If you think your teacher is tough wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

I have learned silence from the talkative toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind yet strange I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

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.'

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent every counselor every teacher every professor every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

America must be the teacher of democracy not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.