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Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
David E. Kelley on teacher

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren on teacher

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson on teacher

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim on teacher

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
David E. Price on teacher

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.
Doris Roberts on teacher

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran on teacher

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Abdul Kalam on teacher

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama on teacher

Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein on teacher

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

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth on teacher

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward on teacher

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates on teacher

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard on teacher

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 Waitley on teacher

Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar on teacher

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen on teacher

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 on teacher

I'm glad I was a teacher.
John Wooden on teacher