Nearly everyone I met worked with or read about was my teacher one way or another.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second more personal and important from himself.

I wanted to be a teacher but I was a lousy student one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I never had to learn English French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

When people lack teachers their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles then their lawlessness is not controlled.

When I was in junior high school the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

We can teach a lot of things but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students he'll never be a competent teacher.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

A good teacher like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention then he can teach his lesson.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

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.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Study how water flows in a valley stream smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains rivers plants and trees - should be your teacher.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent a teacher an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

I am indebted to my father for living but to my teacher for living well.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

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