Rudolf Steiner Quotes

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot.

I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.

Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively rational, or whatever else, he/she will not pass through the classroom without leaving his or her mark on the students.

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

The teachers who have had the most impact on me and on most learners I know are teachers whose "selfhoods" have been deeply invested in what they are doing.

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I'm in class, so teach me.