Teachers And Learners Quotes

“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi, KARATE POWER Lethal power of Fajin

“A teacher is only as effective as his ability to understand where his student is.”
― Abraham Hicks

“It's like she's pulling Post-it notes out of her hair and lecturing from them, one of my peers once complained about the teaching style of my beloved teacher Mary Ann Caws. ...Ditto Eileen Myles, who tells a great story about a student at UC San Diego once complaining that her lecturing style was like 'throwing a pizza at us.' My feeling is, you should be so lucky to get a pizza in the face from Eileen Myles, or a Post-it note plucked from the nest of Mary Ann Caws's hair.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“I don't teach lessons to learn, I lessen the teach to learn”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Heeded my words not, did you? Pass on what you have learned. Strength. Mastery. But weakness, folly, failure also. Yes, failure most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is. Luke, we are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.”
― Rian Johnson

“Books connect us with our ancestors’ struggles, and allow us to tap into the wisdom that they extracted from nature and human relationships. Book reading allows us direct access to the great minds and the best teachers of the ages.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“If you expect a penguin to teach you to fly and a camel to teach you to swim, you will live throughout your life without wings and fins”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“A great teacher's mind will be young forever, he is a life long learner --- Happy Teacher's Day”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“There is no one-size-fits-all way to teach people. And no one-size-fits-all way to learn.”
― Erin Dionne, Lights, Camera, Disaster

“Musicians are our real teachers. They are opening us up politically with their lyrics and creatively with experimental, psychedelic music. They share their discoveries and journeys with us. We can’t travel far, no one I know has ever been on an aeroplane. ... whatever they experience, we experience through their songs. It’s true folk music — not played on acoustic guitar by a bearded bloke — but about true-life experiences.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“The Woodcraft Folk is a youth organisation, a bit like Brownies or Scouts but it mixes boys and girls together and has an arty, bohemian vibe. [...] We call the adults in charge ‘leaders’ and address them by their Christian names – this is the first time I'm allowed to call an adult by their first name. At Woodcraft children are treated like people, not half-formed irrelevant creatures, we are consulted on every decision that's made.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“A teacher of one subject was once a student learning many subjects”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“If we are going to teach children in the 21st Century, we need to see it through a different lens.
-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?”
― Aaron L. Smith

“I refuse to accept failure. If we are going to succeed in education, we must do more than everyone else.
-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?”
― Aaron L. Smith, Ph.D.

“Unfortunately, every year thousands of students end up in one or more of these categories: jail, pregnant, dropping out, gangs, or dead where this vicious cycle will only get worse unless someone else changes this irreplaceable system.

- -Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?”
― Aaron L. Smith, Ph.D.

“Adults have led education for eons and don't let students have any say. If this is going to work, we need a different approach.

-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?”
― Aaron L. Smith, Ph.D.

“The teacher encourages
the student morphs - moth to beauteous butterfly soars”
― Mala Naidoo

“One of the great things about teaching is how difficult it is to multitask while doing it. Like reading, teaching requires your full focus — I consider that a feature, not a flaw. When things are hard to multitask, that means they require effort and attention, which is a good thing. We have to pay attention, bring our full focus to teaching, and then we can do it well.”
― Thatcher Wine, The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better

“Bad students are product of bad teachers”
― Zybeta Metani' Marashi, Escaping Communism, It's Like Escaping Hell

“Good teachers make good citizens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“THE ONLY REVENGE KNOWN TO ME IS TO TEACH A LESSON”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“A good student always loves his teacher.”
― Sean Stewart, Yoda - Dark Rendezvous

“There has been no greater tool to facilitate this weakening of the parent’s authority than the school system. This has gotten so sinister that advocates of the education system have been pushing for children to attend school from younger ages. This is presented as a benefit to the parents as they can now have time to work, and the child is learning from a young age.”
― Salatiso Mdeni, The Homeschooling Father, How and Why I got started.: Traditional Schooling to Online Learning until Homeschooling

“The first 8 years of a child's life are crucial for their development. During this time, the experiences they have and the things they are exposed to play a significant role in shaping their identity and have a long-term impact on their brain. For those who seek to shape children for their own gain, it is crucial that they isolate them as early as possible from the parents.”
― Salatiso Mdeni

“The great teacher not only teaches, but also weans off.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“A teacher and a learner are never mediocre. Those who teach and those who learn are always superior.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The greatest legacy a teacher can leave is a mind awakened to its own power.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“A teacher’s ultimate fulfillment is not in the lessons they deliver, but in the growth they witness in their students.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“The difficult people in our life are really our teachers.”
― Bert McCoy, A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life