Quotations about Teachers
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 is the profession that
teaches all the 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. ~Author Unknown
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Quotes for Teachers
By viewing the old we learn the new
Chinese Proverb
I have gathered a posie of other
men's flowers and only the thread
that
bonds them is my own.
Michel Montaigne
They know enough who know how to
learn.
Henry Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can
never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Good teaching is more a giving of
right questions than a giving of
right
answers.
Josef Albers
The true teacher defends his pupils
against his own personal
influences.. .
Amos Alcott
You can't direct the wind but you
can adjust the sails.
Anonymous
Even the clearest water appears
opaque at great
depth.
Anonymous
We think of the effective teachers
we have had over the years with a
sense of
recognition, but those who have
touched our humanity we remember
with a deep
sense of
gratitude.
Anonynous student
Education is the best viaticum of
old age.
Aristotle
Read not to contradict and confute,
nor to believe and take for
granted... but
to weigh and
consider.
Francis Bacon
Out of monuments, names, words
proverbs ...and the like, we do save
and recover
somewhat from the deluge of
time.
Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man,
conference a ready man and writing
an exact man.
Francis Bacon
You can observe a lot by just
looking
around. Yogi
Berra
Opposites are not contradictory but
complementary.
Niels Bohr
It is important that students bring
a certain ragamuffin, barefoot
irreverance
to their studies; they are not here
to worship what is known, but to
question
it.
Jacob Bronowski
A man should first direct himself in
the way he should go. Only then
should he
instruct
others.
Buddha
We think too much about effective
methods of teaching and not enough
about
effective methods of
learning.
John Carolus S.J.
No matter how good teaching may be,
each student must take the
responsibility
for his own
education.
John Carolus S.J.
The job of an educator is to teach
students to see the vitality in
themselves.
Joseph Campbell
Blessed are the hearts that can
bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus
I hear, and I forget. I see, and I
remember. I do, and I
understand.
Chinese Proverb
Give me a fish and I eat for a day.
Teach me to fish and I eat for a
lifetime.
Chinese Proverb
The empires of the future are the
empires of the mind. Winston
Churchill
What greater or better gift can we
offer the republic than to teach and
instruct our
youth.
Marcus T. Cicero
I am not ashamed to confess that I
am ignorant of what I do not
know.
Marcus T. Cicero
If I had more time, I would have
written a shorter letter. Marcus
T. Cicero
The important thing in life is not
the triumph but the struggle.
Pierre de Coubertin
To think is to
differ.
Clarence Darrow
The chief cause of human errors is
to be found in the prejudices picked
up in
childhood.
Rene Descartes
The origin of thinking is some
perplexity, confusion or doubt.
John Dewey
One can think effectively only when
one is willing to endure suspense
and to
undergo the trouble of
searching.
John Dewey
There is no education like
adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Those who profess to favor freedom
and yet depricate agitation, are men
who
want crops without plowing the
ground.
Frederick Douglass
It is the supreme art of the teacher
to awaken joy in creative expression
and
knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple
as possible, but not simplier.
Albert Einstein
No one can become really educated
without having pursued some study in
which
he took no interest
...
T.S. Eliot
Reinventing the wheel is a
process.
Rashid Elisha
To arrive at the simple is
difficult.
Rashid Elisha
Blessed is the man who, having
nothing to say, abstains from giving
us wordy
evidence of the
fact.
George Eliot (Mary-Ann Evans)
Every artist was at first an
amateur.
Ralph W. Emerson
Whoso neglects learning in his
youth, loses the past and is dead to
the future.
Euripides
Anyone who stops learning is old,
whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone
who
keeps learning stays
young.
Henry Ford
Awaken people's curiosity. It is
enough to open minds, do not
overload them.
Put there just a
spark.
Anatole France
Being entirely honest with oneself
is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
I have an infamously low capacity
for visualizing relationships, which
made the
study of geometry and all subjects
derived from it impossible for
me.
Sigmund Freud
When inspiration does not come to
me, I go half way to meet it.
Sigmund Freud
You cannot teach a man anything; you
can only help him find it within
himself.
Galielo Galilei
There is more to life than
increasing its speed.
Mohandes Gandhi
Vague and nebulous is the beginning
of all things, but not their end.
Kahlil Gibran
A talent is formed in stillness, a
character in the world's
torrent.
Johann W. Goethe
An excellent plumber is infinitely
more admirable than an incompetent
philosopher.
John W. Gardner
If you do not expect it, you will
not find the unexpected, for it is
hard to
find and
difficult.
Heraclitus
People learn more quickly by doing
something or seeing something
done.
Gilbert Highet
Education can be dangerous. It is
very difficult to make it not
dangerous. In
fact, it is almost
impossible.
Robert M. Hutchins
Sometimes one man with courage is a
majority. Andrew
Jackson
In the practical use of our
intellect, forgetting is as
important as
remembering.
William James
These then are my last words to you:
be not afraid of life. Believe that
life
is worth living and your belief will
help create the fact. William
James
It is art that makes life, makes
interest, makes importance.. . and I
know of
no substitute whatever for the force
and beauty of its process.
Henry James Jr.
Education is man's going forward
from cocksure ignorance to
thoughtful
uncertainty.
Kenneth G. Johnson
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes
its values only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson
To teach is to learn
twice.
Joseph Joubert
Be not angry that you cannot make
others as you wish them to be, since
you
cannot make yourself as you wish to
be. Thomas A.
Kempis
Creative activity is not a
superimposed, extraneous task
against which the
body, or brain protests, but an
orchestration of ... joyful
doing.
Gyorgy Kepes
Where there is an open mind there
will always be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering
There are two ways to slide easily
through life: to believe everything
or to
doubt everything. Both ways save us
from thinking. Alfred
Korzybski
When asked what learning was the
most necessary, he said, "Not to
unlearn
what you have
learned!"
Diogenes Laertius
Learning is never done without
errors and defeat.
Vladimir Lenin
Give me four years to teach the
children and the seed I have sown
will never
be
uprooted.
Vladimir Lenin
I have been maturing as a teacher.
New experiences bring new
sensitivities
and flexibility.
..
Howard Lester
To do just the opposite is a form of
imitation. Georg
Lichtenberg
Upon the subject of education, not
presuming to dictate any plan or
system
respecting it, I can only say that I
view it as the most important
subject
which we as a people may be engaged
in. Abraham
Lincoln
Certain subjects yield a general
power that may be applied in any
direction
and should be studied by
all.
John Locke
A note of music gains significance
from the silence on either side.
Ann Morrow Lindberg
To define is to destroy, to suggest
is to create. Stephane
Mallarme
Education... beyond all other
devices of human origin, is a great
equalizer
of conditions of men --the balance
wheel of the social machinery... It
does
better than to disarm the poor of
their hostility toward the rich; it
prevents
being
poor.
Horace Mann
People's behavior makes sense if you
think about it inn terms of their
goals,
needs, and
motives.
Thomas Mann
The young don't know what age is,
and the old forget what youth
was.
Seumas MacManus
Trifles make perfection, and
perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Let the potential artist in our
children come to life that they may
surmount
industrial monotonies and
pressures.
Barbara Morgan
Teachers should guide without
dictating, and participate without
dominating.
C.B. Neblette
The critical factor is not class
size but rather the nature of the
teaching
as it affects
learning.
C.B. Neblette
How many writers are there... who,
breaking up their subject into
details,
destroy its life, and defraud us of
the whole by their anxiety about the
parts.
Cardinal Newman
Knowledge rests on knowledge; what
is new is meaningful because it
departs
slightly from what was known
before.
Robert Oppenheimer
Only the mind cannot be sent into
exile.
Ovid
In the fields of observation, chance
favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
The beginning is the most important
part of the work.
Plato
An object in possession seldom
contains the same charm that it had
in pursuit.
Pliny the Younger
The mind is not a vessel to be
filled, but a fire to be
ignited. Plutarch
A man should never be ashamed to own
he has been wrong, which is but
saying
in other words that he is wiser
today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope
The basic idea behind teaching is to
teach people what they need to
know.
Carl Rogers
Education... is a painful, continual
and difficult work to be done in
kindness,
by watching, by warning,... by
praise, but above all -- by
example.
John Ruskin
Men learn while they
teach.
Lucius A. Seneca
The great pilot can sail even when
his canvass is rent. Lucius A.
Seneca
Wonder is the desire for
knowledge.
St. Thomas Aquinas
It is not often that we use language
correctly; usually we use it
incorrectly,
though we understand each others
meaning. St.
Augustine
I know but one freedom and that is
the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is such a secret place, the land
of tears. Antoine de
Saint-Exupery
A child educated only at school is
an uneducated child. George
Santayana
Always to see the general in the
particular is the very foundation of
genius.
Arthur Schopenhauer
To me the sole hope of human
salvation lies in teaching. George
Bernard Shaw
The way to gain a good reputation is
to endeavor to be what you desire to
appear.
Socrates
One must learn by doing the thing;
for though you think you know it,
you have
no certainty, until you
try.
Sophocles
A man is rich in proportion to the
number of things he can afford to
let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
It's what you learn after you know
it all that counts. Harry S.
Truman
It is easy to spot an informed man
-- his opinions are just like your
own.
Miguel de Unamuno
The best way to know life is to love
many things. Vincent Van
Gogh
Human history becomes more and more
a race between education and
catastrophe.
H.G. Wells
An artist is always out of step with
the time. He has to be. Orson
Welles
Education should turn out the pupil
with something he knows well and
something
he can do
well.
Alfred North Whitehead
The limits of your language are the
limits of your world. Ludwig
Wittgenstein
I put the relation of a fine teacher
to a student just below the relation
of
a mother to a
son...
Thomas Wolfe
Come forth into the light of things,
let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
The wisdom of the wise and the
experience of the ages are
perpetuated in
quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
LEARNING NEVER ENDS
Quotes For
Teachers: Be Inspired!
"In youth we
learn; in age we understand" (Von
Ebner-Eschenbach)
"Challenges
make you discover things about
yourself that you never really knew.
They're what make the instrument
stretch- what make you go beyond the
norm." (Tyson)
"What we hope
ever to do with ease, we must learn
first to do with diligence." (Samuel
Johnson)
"To travel
hopefully is a better thing than to
arrive." -Robert Louis Stevenson
"It isn't the
load that weighs us down - it's the
way we carry it." (Anon.)
"I
touch the future. I teach." (Christa
McAuliffe)
"If you find a
path with no obstacles, it probably
doesn't lead anywhere" - anonymous
"The greater
the obstacle, the more glory in
overcoming it." (Moliere)
"No
pessimist ever discovered the
secrets of the stars, or sailed to
an uncharted land, or opened a new
heaven to the human spirit." (Helen
Keller)
some
more:
If at first
the idea is not absurd, then
there is no hope for it."
Albert
Einstein
Everything
comes gradually and at its
appointed hour."
Ovid
" If you
can't make a mistake, you can't
make anything."
Marva Collins
" When you
get your community to come
together, now that's something,
but when you get the world to
unite, now that saves lives."
" No one is
responsible for anything. The
only thing they're responsible
for is opportunity. "
Mark Dawson
---
Never get
through but go by."
