The mother is the first teacher. [ E. D. Mansfield ]
Experience is the teacher of fools. [ Livy ]
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [ Cicero ]
Teaching of others teaches the teacher. [ Proverb ]
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace. [ Landor ]
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero. [ Carlyle ]
Come forth into the light of things; let nature be your teacher. [ Wordsworth ]
Hunger is the teacher of the arts, and the bestower of invention. [ Persius ]
To the true teacher, Time's hourglass should still run gold-dust. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
It is no discredit to be a teacher of that which is credible to be learned. [ Proverb ]
Hunger makes everything sweet except itself, for want is the teacher of habits. [ Antiphanes ]
The belly (i.e. hunger or necessity) is the teacher of arts and the bestower of genius. [ Pers ]
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. [ Hazlitt ]
A clear running brook is the best teacher of style. There is a quick forward movement - but not measured or monotonous movement - while the water is so limpid that everything is seen through the crystal medium. It seems to me that the best style is that which reveals the writer's thoughts so easily, plainly, and musically that the reader becomes engrossed in the thought or story and forgets the writer. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]