Parker Palmer Quotes

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

When one teaches, two learn.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.

I think, being an actor, part of it is also being a teacher. I think that's one of the most rewarding things you can do - pass on the knowledge you've learned from other teachers.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

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.

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

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

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

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

While we teach, we learn.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

Teachers are important in this world.

Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself.

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.