- A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the
way for others. ~Author Unknown
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to
fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
~Jacques Barzun
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert
- Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
~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 - 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
- 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- "I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand."
- Chinese Proverb
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get
what you've always got" - NLP adage
"No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the
responsibility for his own education." - John Carolus S. J.
"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it inn terms
of their goals, needs, and motives." - Thomas Mann
"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its
scarcity." - Samuel Johnson
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape
of the spoon" - E. M. Forster
"Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without
dominating." - C.B. Neblette
"Teach your children by what you are, not just by what you say"
- Jane Revell & Susan Norman
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those
who want to learn." - Cicero
"The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they
need to know." - Carl Rogers
"The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality
in themselves." - Joseph Campbell
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
- Plutarch
"To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching."
- George Bernard Shaw
"To teach is to learn twice." - Joseph Joubert
"Try to present at least three options. One is no choice at all.
Two creates a dilemma. With three you begin to have real choice and
flexibility" - Jane Revell & Susan Norman
"We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not
enough about effective methods of learning." - John Carolus S.
J.
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and
not knowledge in pursuit of the child." - George Bernard Shaw
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." - John Cotton
Dana
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find
it within himself." - Galielo Galilei
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