Greil Marcus Quotes

Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.

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

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

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.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

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

During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

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