Pete Seeger Quotes

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

We learn by teaching.

What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

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

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

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

While we teach, we learn.

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.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.

Clancy had taught me well.

If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

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

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

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.