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Quotes About Guidance

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.
~ Wanda Landowska
Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.
~ Grant Teaff
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
~ Harriet Martineau
When we are young, parents and teachers tell us we can do anything and become whatever we want. But as we grow older, these same people tell us we must be more realistic.
~ Michael Hyatt
Let your Teacher be Love itself.
~ Rumi
One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.
~ Donna Fargo
True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.
~ Ernest Holmes
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teacher's job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.
~ Rafe Esquith
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
~ Albert Einstein
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
~ Martin Luther
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.
~ John G. Kemeny
I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.
~ Richard Simmons
I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.
~ James Galway
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
~ Thomas Carlyle
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~ Henry Adams
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
~ Betty Buckley
The child-teacher relationship is crucial.
~ Kinky Friedman