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“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!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself. Spray paint is impossible. They say it takes a decade to really learn spray paint and be good with it. I've been at it about ten years now and am now really just getting good and confident with it.”

Years Home Teacher Impossible Taught Mom Ten Paint Very Good My Mom Be Good Decades Spray Good Teacher Spray Paint

Author:Alec Monopoly

“Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.”

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Author:Rafe Esquith

“Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.”

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Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.”

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Author:James A. Michener

“The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.”

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Author:Kinky Friedman

“A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires”

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Author:William Arthur Ward

“Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.”

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Author:Bernie Mac

“The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!”

Source: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, the Text Carefully Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. With a Commentary and Critical Notes Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings

“People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.”

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Author:Israel Gelfand

“We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.”

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Book:The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if you have just a really good teacher, it's inspiring. I certainly use, in my work, I mean, I used to rely heavily on imagery. I was obsessed with this photograph that was in the NY Times of a fish engulfing a smaller fish and this smaller fish had this look in its eyes; it knew what was about to happen and, I don't know how they ever captured such an image, but I've used that for a play I (did). It's called "Saved."”

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Author:Amy Ryan

“India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers?”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.”

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Author:Abdul Kalam

“We know that the two most important things in a child's education are a good teacher and an involved parent. You don't foster those things with a bloated federal bureaucracy - you encourage them when you support choice and accountability.”

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Author:Carly Fiorina

“So what I liked about Zen was that it never goes off into the realm of imagination land, or if it does occasionally, the good teachers will openly address it specifically as only imagination. Both of my teachers were very good at that.”

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Author:Brad Warner

“A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings and helps each individual find his uniqueness.”

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Author:T. K. V. Desikachar

“I'm 67 years old now. I've had a lot of good teachers over the years; and they have been very, very different from one another. They all had passion for what they were doing, but their styles were unique to them as individuals.”

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Author:Parker J. Palmer

“You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that are being promoted in this or that handbook.”

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Author:Parker J. Palmer

“People should find what approach really speaks to them, and then do it. Obviously, better with a good teacher, who can help you on the path. But in any case, basic principles.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.”

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Author:Truman Capote

“We need more good jobs, and that means we've got to start educating young people, starting literally in the first five years of life making sure that every kid in every zip code has good teachers and good schools, making college affordable, helping people pay down their debt.”

“Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence.”

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Author:Howard Gardner

“Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?”

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Author:Howard Gardner

“I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.”

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Author:Laura Huxley

“Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.”

“If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters and are getting good preschool, and by the time they get into school they've got a good teacher and are getting the support that they need and are able to keep up with their classwork, that is going to do more to reduce the incarceration rate at the same time, obviously, as it increases the college enrollment rate.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of the ZIP code that he or she lives in.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.”

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Author:Gene Luen Yang

“I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and especially from my grandmother (who also worked on a barge boat as a cook and a servant for rich folks in Manhattan, Newport, Grosse Point, and Sewickley, all havens of the very rich), that life was not especially fair and always full of bad possibilities, helped shape my future take on life. Then what really transformed my thinking was the war in Vietnam and trying to be a good teacher.”

“Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.”

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Author:Shahrukh Khan

“If you're a "good" teacher, somebody who is responsible or careful, teaching takes time. Teaching is performative. Students nowadays evaluate you and there's a lot made in these evaluations about how you perform. Maybe you don't have the greatest delivery in the world. But you know a lot, have a lot to offer. So that's pretty unsettling. We've become so image-based and performance-based as a society. You have to be ready to appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" at any moment.”

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Author:Lynne Tillman

“Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.”

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Author:Charles Kuralt

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

Source: Thoughts

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

Source: Annual Reports on Education

“Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.”

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Author:Danica McKellar

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”

“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."”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“Your best teacher is your last mistake.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“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.”

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

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Author:Plutarch

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”

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Author:Plutarch

“Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.”

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Author:Godfrey Reggio

“I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.”

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.”

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Author:John Sculley

“When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.”

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Author:Richard Simmons

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

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Author:B. F. Skinner

“Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.”

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Author:Adora Svitak