„Teachers have to be learners. They have to treat each new group of students as a different group, fresh and unknown. Teachers often perceive new students as being the same as those in the previous group and apply the same practice to them. If teachers are learners, they will study the new group of students in order to identify their strengths and weaknesses, then teach them accordingly.“

„To make teachers more reflective, a series of self-assessment sessions have to be conducted, beginning with an analysis of the learners, or the students. Teachers have to be trained or retrained on how to make their teaching more effective and successful.“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

„Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past.“

—  Richard Hamming American mathematician and information theorist 1915 - 1998

Preface
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

„The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.“

—  Kenzaburō Ōe Japanese author 1935

p 92
Shizuka-na seikatsu (A Quiet Life) (1990)

„He was extraordinary, a genius; there’s no doubt about it. But his teaching was not for everyone. Different students need different teachers and different teachers find different students. It’s very strange and fascinating.“

—  B.K.S. Iyengar Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918 - 2014

Silvia Prescott, in: "My teacher, Mr Iyengar: a former pupil remembers the yoga master"

„In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first“

—  Gary L. Francione American legal scholar 1954

„There is a theory of learning and teaching together and that is all. Results from many studies support this point of view as, also, does the evidence of commonsense. So, to be dogmatic (but with confidence) learning implies teaching and teaching implies learning. Sometimes the teacher and learner responsible for th joint process are obvious (a student at a desk and another person wearing an academic cap and gown). Sometimes, the teacher and learner are not so obviously distinct and turn out to be unexpected but, once-indicated, intuitively plausible entities.“

—  Gordon Pask British psychologist 1928 - 1996

p 33 as cited in: D. Psillos (2003) Science Education Research in the Knowledge-Based Society. p. 44.
Conversation, Cognition and Learning (1975)

„Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.“

—  Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997

Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 2

„The best learners are also teachers.“

—  Dave Ulrich American academic 1953

Source: HR from the Outside In, 2012, p. 105

„A parent knows an individual child's needs better than a set of guidelines will. A group of parents and teachers in a community will almost always know what's best for that community's students, than that of state board of education.“

—  Rupert Boneham American mentor, television personality, and politician 1964

Rupert on the Issues (2011)

„The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.“

—  Wendell Berry author 1934

"Healing".
What Are People For? (1990)

„The learning must belong to the learners and not to the teachers.“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Learner

„I have nothing to teach you that will help you to make a living. [as art teacher, advising his students]“

—  John Sloan American painter 1871 - 1951

Source: Loughery, John. John Sloan: Painter and Rebel. New York: Henry Holt, 1995. , pp. 224-225

„The dialogical character of education as the practice of freedom does not begin when the teacher-student meets with the students-teachers in pedagogical situation, but rather when the former first asks herself or himself what she or he will dialogue with the latter about.“

—  Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

„School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.“

—  H.L. Mencken, book The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908), pg. 217
1900s

„Teachers must have a positive mind. If their attitude is negative, it infects their students.“

—  Koichi Tohei Japanese aikidoka 1920 - 2011

27
Ki Sayings (2003)
Context: When you teach people it is useless to try to change their character. Correct their bad habits first, then their true character can come through. Teachers must have a positive mind. If their attitude is negative, it infects their students. Students cannot learn from bad examples until they develop their own powers of judgement.

„Learning is most often considered a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.“

—  David A. Kolb American psychologist 1939

[Kolb, DA, Osland JS, Rubin IM, Organizational Behavior: an experiential approach, 1971, 7, 2001, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, English, 42]

„Teachers need to be trained on how children learn, not only how to solve mathematical problems. They must know how to make learners well understand the New Math and enable them to solve mathematical problems.“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

„It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.“

—  Carlos Ruiz Zafón, book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

„As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.“

—  Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

Source: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae