Quotes about Teachers
Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.
— Lancelot Andrewes
If churches are to be healthy, then pastors and teachers must be committed to discovering the meaning of Scripture and allowing that meaning to drive the agenda with their congregations.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
O God my Truth, make me one with You in eternal love. Often I become weary with reading and hearing many things. You are all that I want and desire. Let all teachers be mute and all creation keep silence before You. Speak to me, You, and You alone.
— Thomas a Kempis
Women in the Bible are wise teachers. They offer up a boatload of profound theology intended to enrich the whole church's understanding of who God is, what it means to walk with him, and how we are to build his kingdom in this broken world.
— Carolyn Custis James
In a world in transition, students and teachers both need to teach themselves one essential skill - learning how to learn.
— Carl Sagan
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
— Bill Gates
My critics are my best teachers, but only when they will talk with me, not at me. Unfortunately
— Shane Claiborne
The desire was not directed at the unknown thug who had sent a bullet through the boy's body, or at the looting bureaucrats who had hired the thug to do it, but at the boy's teachers who had delivered him, disarmed, to the thug's gun—at the soft, safe assassins of college classrooms who, incompetent to answer the queries of a quest for reason, took pleasure in crippling the young minds entrusted to their care.
— Ayn Rand
I've learned to place my faith in my fellow citizens, especially those of the next generation, whose conviction in the equal worth of all people seems to come as second nature, and who insist on making real those principles that their parents and teachers told them were true but perhaps never fully believed themselves.
— Barack Obama
Bible teachers are to instruct in order to explain what they just did, or are about to do.
— Bill Johnson
After three days, they found Him in the temple complex sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Luke 2:46
— Beth Moore
They want to be teachers of the law, although they don't understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on. 1 Timothy 1:7
— Beth Moore