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Anonymous teacher · Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. – Bruce Lee
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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. – Carl Gustav Jung
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. – Buddha
Billy Hey I'm trying to score points with the teacher today. DON'T SCREW IT UP. 3rd Grader I dare you to touch her boobs. Billy Touch her boobs That's assault brotha...... Ya double dare me – Billy Madison
Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time. – Mark Twain
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. – A. C. Benson
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. – Confucius
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all. – Unknown
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information. – Martin Heidegger
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William Arthur Ward
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. – Giovanni Ruffini
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. – Amos Bronson Alcott
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. – John W. Gardner
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. – Vernon Sanders Law
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. – Zig Ziglar
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. – Henry Adams
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. – Denis Watley
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities. – John A. Rassias
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon. – Maria Montessori
The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning. – Nathan M. Pusey
The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book is the world; the best friend is God. – The Talmud
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 place! – Mehmet Murat ildan
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. – Louis A. Berman
A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130. – Ernest Leroy Boyer
A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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