Famous Quotes

"I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me."

Ann Bancroft on Teacher

More quotes about Teacher

• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

  Khalil Gibran on Teacher

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

  Albert Einstein on Teacher

• "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

  Confucius on Teacher

• "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

  Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

• "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 on Teacher

More quotes by Ann Bancroft

• "A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker."

• "This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return."

• "I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability."

• "I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress."