Student Teacher Quotes

The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her.

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

I don't envy my teachers. I used to preach to them.

If you want to be able to teach, then you need to listen - a lot.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

People are coming to you at their most vulnerable; they're showing you the parts of themselves that they're afraid to show: the parts that they're not so sure about, not so secure in. And so it's a really holy profession I think, teaching. If you do it right, it can change somebody's life.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.

I've come to realise that the best teachers never stop being teachers.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

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

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.