I like a teacher who
gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
The dream begins with a
teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next
plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather
In teaching you cannot
see the fruit of a day's work. It is
invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun
Teaching creates all
other professions. ~Author Unknown
If a doctor, lawyer, or
dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different
needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and
the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with
professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of
the classroom teacher's job. ~Donald D.
Quinn
Modern cynics and
skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their
children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of
their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy
A teacher is one who
makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers
Good teaching is
one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin
A teacher who is
attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is
hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann
Most teachers have
little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special
placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the
classroom. To a degree shared by only a
few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously
on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional
pyramid. ~Tracy Kidder
A teacher affects
eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams
A good teacher is like
a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from
Turkish
If you have knowledge,
let others light their candles at it.
~Margaret Fuller
The true teacher
defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the
spirit that quickens him. He will have
no disciple. ~Amos Bronson Alcott
A good teacher is a
master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman
We expect teachers to
handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ~John Sculley
Good teachers are
costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob
Talbert
The mediocre teacher
tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward
The best teacher is the
one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the
wish to teach himself. ~Edward
Bulwer-Lytton
A teacher's purpose is
not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create
their own image. ~Author Unknown
What the teacher is, is
more important than what he teaches.
~Karl Menninger
Teaching should be full
of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
~Author Unknown
A cross-eyed teacher
can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the
pupils do not know who she's looking at.
~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by
John R. Kemble, 1902
Teaching is leaving a
vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you
can deposit your most precious treasures.
~Eugene P. Bertin
Teachers who inspire
know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have
nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. ~Author Unknown
Teachers who inspire
realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping
stones; it all depends on how we use them.
~Author Unknown
Teaching is not a lost
art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
~Jacques Barzun
One looks back with
appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched
our human feelings. The curriculum is so
much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing
plant and for the soul of the child.
~Carl Jung
A teacher's job is to
take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. ~D. Martin
What a teacher writes
on the blackboard of life can never be erased.
~Author Unknown
The teacher who is
indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads
you to the threshold of your mind.
~Kahlil Gibran
Discover wildlife: be a teacher!
~Author Unknown
The task of the excellent
teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual
effort. The tough problem is not in
identifying winners: it is in making
winners out of ordinary people. ~K.
Patricia Cross
When you teach your
son, you teach your son's son. ~The
Talmud
The best teachers teach
from the heart, not from the book.
~Author Unknown
The average teacher
explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Often, when I am
reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted
number. ~Author Unknown
2 Teach is
2 Touch lives
4 Ever
~Author Unknown
Who dares to teach must
never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana
There are three good
reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August. ~Author Unknown
A truly special teacher
is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes. ~Author Unknown
A teacher should have
maximal authority, and minimal power. ~Thomas
Szaz
To teach is to learn
twice. ~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842
The secret of teaching
is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this
morning. ~Author Unknown
Teachers touch the
future. ~Author Unknown
Don't try to fix the
students, fix ourselves first. The good
teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too,
have failed. ~Marva Collins
The object of teaching
a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. ~Elbert Hubbard
Teaching is the only
major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an
average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the
"naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach. ~Peter Drucker
Teachers are expected
to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish
this impossible task. ~Haim G. Ginott
The art of teaching is
the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark
Van Doren
Quotations From
Teachers:
The only reason I
always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to
forgive their children. ~Louis Johannot
If you promise not to
believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to
believe everything he says happens at home.
~Anonymous Teacher
