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“Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.”

Wells Littles Persons Known Teacher Students India Enlightened Village Well Known Tibet Himalayas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me.”

Philosophy Careers Study Teacher Degrees India University Massachusetts

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“Education makes life self-reliant. It inspires man to live with dignity in the society. It is the foremost requisite of a teacher to identify his own virtues. He needs to live supported by his inherent virtues-and must continue to uphold them.”

Men Needs Self Education Virtue Teacher Inspire Dignity India Inherent Self Reliant

Author:Narendra Modi

“If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.”

Ifs Men Two Mother Growth Education Teacher Progress Development India Contribution Two Things Great Men Biographies

Author:Narendra Modi

“Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher?”

Men Giving Life Is Education Five Teacher Development Thousand Hundred India Credit Fifty Great Men Salary Rupees

Author:Narendra Modi

“A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.”

Joy Powerful Education Teacher Imagine Duty Revolution India Seeds Fulfilling Sowing

Author:Narendra Modi

“Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.”

Giving Soul Body Government School Parent Education Teacher Building Birth India Magnificent Constructs Guru Giver School Buildings

Author:Narendra Modi

“If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.”

Ifs World Law Causes Teacher Effects My Friends India Buddhist Cause And Effect Inexorable

Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

“Technology for me is discover, learn, evolve and implement. It combines 3Ss- speed, simplicity and service. Technology is fast, technology is simple and technology is a brilliant way to serve people. It is also a great teacher. The more we learn about technology and the more we learn through technology, the better it is.”

People Way Simple Technology Teacher India Simplicity Speed Brilliant Evolve Great Teacher Information Technology

Author:Narendra Modi

“Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.”

Thinking World Want Needs Children Education Environment Teacher Produce India Capability Linked Good Teacher Good Education

Author:Narendra Modi

“Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?”

Children Dream Desire Education Teacher India Great Teacher Exporting

Author:Narendra Modi

“My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.”

Kind My Own Teacher Share Return India West Awakening Inquiry

Author:Arjuna Ardagh

“When I went to a school in Japan, they told me that both the teachers and students perform cleaning tasks here to keep the schools clean. I wondered why can't we do it in India.”

School Teacher Students Tasks India Clean Japan Cleaning Teacher And Student

Author:Narendra Modi

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

Thinking Nations Teacher India Good Teacher Exporting

Author:Narendra Modi

“My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.”

Sometimes Facts Mother Reading Class Teacher Teaching Taught Consequence India Bored Hindi English Teacher Reading More

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is very visible. There are lots of temples, lots of Islamic centers, lots of gurdwaras, and lots of teachers.”

Mean Culture Spirituality Religious Teacher India Depth Surface Visible Islamic Temples Religious Life

Author:Diana L. Eck

“India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.”

Spiritual Powerful Teacher India Guides Very Powerful Pilgrimage

Author:Diana L. Eck

“In India many people come to discuss things with me. I sometimes say that half of them come saying, "I have a problem, I want to find a teacher." The other half say, "I have a problem because I have a teacher!" So it's not so simple.”

People Want Sometimes Problem Simple Half Teacher India Other Half

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.”

Want School Teacher Fields Football Empty India Library Meant To Be Classroom Cricket Toilets Cattle Grazing Playing Cricket

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.”

World Wells Philosophy Night Literature Animal Teacher India Inspired China Chess Equations Grammar Imaginative Fables Arabian Arabian Nights Phonetics

Author:Lin Yutang

“Osho is one of India's greatest mystics.... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.”

World Kind Felt Community Vision Teacher Influence Building India International Philosopher Guides Enormous Our Time Thinker Great Teacher International Community World Vision

Author:Kabir Bedi

“I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'”

Ifs Thinking Said Home Spiritual Teacher India Enlightened Great Teacher Home For Christmas

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert