Teacher proverbs

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◆ I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

- Orson Scott Card99

◆ There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

- Pat Conroy99

◆ A true leader is a person whose influence inspires people to do what is expected of them to do. You cease to be a leader when you manipulate with your egos instead of convincing by your inspirations.

- Israelmore Ayivor99

◆ Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.

- Frank McCourt99

◆ You can have all the schooling you want, it doesn't make you a bit smarter or wiser. It is experience through the act of doing that is the greatest teacher.

- R. G. Risch99

◆ Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

- T.F. Hodge99

◆ Love isn't stackable and interlocking, like boxes or Legos. Love is like a one-legged man standing on a three-legged chair that is placed on top of a two-legged piano. I should know, because I'm the guy trying to tune that piano, fix that chair, and affix a prosthetic leg to that guy—who happens to be my piano teacher. Mr. Balloonky, you get down from there now!?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ never use sarcasm in an email

- Matthew Lasar99

◆ Experience is the best teacher I've ever had. I'm sorry, Mr. Sortz, but it's true.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

- Michelle Sagara West99

◆ One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What's the point?' he said. ‘Kids aren't getting jobs.' You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.

- Daniel Amory99

◆ It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn't old at all, and he had exactly the kind of body that most appealed to her, tall and lean, broad in the shoulder, narrow at the hip. Then there was his brain. It had taken her a lot of years to find that particular part of a man appealing, but she'd finally gotten in the habit, and she couldn't seem to give it up.

- Susan Elizabeth Phillips99

◆ The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.

- Bob Pletka99

◆ It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

- Solomon Ortiz99