Mitch Albom Quotes

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today - the way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Excel and you will get a mentor.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.

Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Cultivate those who can teach you.

Joe Wright was almost like a teacher, to be firm with me, that really stuck with me. And that helped me as I've gotten older.

My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.