Top 30 Great Teacher Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Great Teacher Quotes from famous people such as Dwane Casey, Buddy Rich, Clayton Kershaw, Kobe Bryant, Burgess Owens, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Dwane Casey
But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.
Buddy Rich
Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive – about stride length, power, how to spin the breaking ball. The way he explains pitching is simple, which is something you don’t see a lot.
Clayton Kershaw
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
Kobe Bryant
Experience can be a great teacher.
Burgess Owens
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don’t think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
Aaron Diehl
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
There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.
Robert Sternberg
Experience is a great teacher.
John Legend
I had a great teacher who was really encouraging and said I should go to Central Saint Martins. So I worked my socks off, and I managed to get a place there. It was there that I developed a real love for design.
Giles Deacon
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
No matter how many great things you say about Jacques Pepin, there’s always more. Through his books and videos, he taught me the importance of technique in the kitchen, but, more significantly, he showed me what it means to be a great teacher and educator.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.
Gordon Ramsay
Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.
Bruce Rauner
To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world’s most advanced education technology, I’d pick the teacher any day for my own children.
Sal Khan
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
Steve Harvey
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
Tadashi Yanai
Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.
Susanne Bier
I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.
Michael Symon
And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It’s been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you’ll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.
Dave Winfield
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.
Judy Collins
My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that’s the reason I chose drama – to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.
Deborah Mailman
Coach Dyer was a great mentor for me and a great teacher.
Scottie Pippen
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz
Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we’re running it.
Patrick Mahomes
I was studying with Stella Adler, who was a great, great teacher who encouraged me to be an actor. I had thought I would just write or direct or whatever. I wasn’t thinking very much of Hollywood. I was thinking only of the legitimate theatre. But then I changed.
Warren Beatty
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
Leslie Fiedler
Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.
Christopher Robin Milne