If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

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

Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice.

The students at our universities have ceased as completely as their teachers to enshrine the hopes and ideals of the nation.

The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral.

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty – at least for me.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

 “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Our teachers deserve better feedback

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”