Eliphas Levi Quotes

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

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.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

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

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.

I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

A good teacher is a determined person.

Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.

Teachers across the world are doing all they can to ensure a good education is the top priority for children.

One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

If you want to be able to teach, then you need to listen - a lot.

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.