Great Teacher Quotes

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive – about stride length, power, how to spin the breaking ball. The way he explains pitching is simple, which is something you don’t see a lot.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

I have to tell you, I’m a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren’t very good.

I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that’s the reason I chose drama – to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

No matter how many great things you say about Jacques Pepin, there’s always more. Through his books and videos, he taught me the importance of technique in the kitchen, but, more significantly, he showed me what it means to be a great teacher and educator.

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.

I had a great teacher in my brother and my dad, and to be able to follow Kurt‘s footsteps has helped out a whole bunch.

Coach Dyer was a great mentor for me and a great teacher.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I had a great teacher who was really encouraging and said I should go to Central Saint Martins. So I worked my socks off, and I managed to get a place there. It was there that I developed a real love for design.

Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we’re running it.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Sid Lowe is someone I respect in the league. Knows the game, knows how to teach, great teacher.

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Experience can be a great teacher.

I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.

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.

Experience is a great teacher.

To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world‘s most advanced education technology, I’d pick the teacher any day for my own children.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It’s been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you’ll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

Coach Godsey is a brilliant mind, a great teacher, and it’s been fun learning from him so far.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.