My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. Beau Bridges on teacher
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. Stevie Wonder on teacher
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor on teacher
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Vernon Law on teacher
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. John Ruskin on teacher
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. Walt Whitman on teacher
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. William Jennings Bryan on teacher
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust. Gertrude Jekyll on teacher
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. Woodrow Wilson on teacher
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. Neale Donald Walsch on teacher
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait. Whitney Houston on teacher
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. William Glasser on teacher
I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question. Talib Kweli on teacher
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. Jack Welch on teacher
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. Shahrukh Khan on teacher
The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing. Michael Gove on teacher
Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly. Danica McKellar on teacher
I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little. Phil McGraw on teacher