Erin O'Toole Quotes

I'm a big fan of teachers.

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

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Teachers are important in this world.

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

Once we receive education, we should be grateful for it, respect it, and remember what we learnt.

Dad's the master, I'm the student.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

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

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

You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

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.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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

Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him.