Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

So a good teacher always makes you do something a little bit more than you thought that you could do.

One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.

It's good to have a good teacher, but you always need a pretty good student.

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.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.