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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Written by Ralph Nader
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Written by William Hazlitt
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.
Written by A. C. Benson
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
Written by John Jay Chapman
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Written by Dan Quayle
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Written by William Arthur Ward
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Written by William Nicholson
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Written by Flannery O'Connor
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Written by Calvin Trillin
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Written by Lily Tomlin
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Written by Henry Adams
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Written by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
Written by Dan Rather
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.
Written by Carl Jung
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.
Written by Khalil Gibran
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Written by Horace Mann
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
Written by Thomas Szasz
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Written by Elbert Hubbard
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Written by Haim Ginott
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
Written by W. S. Merwin
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Written by Dr. Seuss
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Written by Minna Antrim
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
Written by Jimmy Carter
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Written by Warren Buffett
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
Written by A. Bartlett Giamatti
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Written by Vernon Law
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Written by Margaret Mead
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.
Written by Confucius
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Written by Elizabeth Hardwick
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Written by Warren Bennis

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