Teachers Quotes
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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. (Quote by - Allan Bloom)
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. (Quote by - William Osler)
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. (Quote by - John Cotton Dana)
Diligence is a great teacher. (Quote by - Saudi Arabian Proverb)
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
Those who know how to think need no teachers. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. (Quote by - Socrates)
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. (Quote by - William A. Ward)
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. (Quote by - Jacques Barzun)
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. (Quote by - Colleen Wilcox)
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. (Quote by - Alexander the Great)
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. (Quote by - Minna Antrim)
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. (Quote by - John Lubbock)
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. (Quote by - Aristotle)
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching? (Quote by - Harriet Martineau)
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
Education is the mother of leadership. (Quote by - Wendell L. Willkie)
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. (Quote by - Bishop Hall)
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. (Quote by - Ben Sweetland)
Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures; astronomy teaches us to know the stars. (Quote by - Latin Maxim)
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching. (Quote by - Pindar)
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm. (Quote by - Joyce Cary)
Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require. (Quote by - Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar)
Whatever you want to teach, be brief. (Quote by - Horace)
To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. (Quote by - Muriel Spark)
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. (Quote by - Anatole France)
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Education is the transmission of civilization. (Quote by - Will Durant)
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. (Quote by - Newton D. Baker)
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. (Quote by - Philip Wylie)
A child miseducated is a child lost. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
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." (Quote by - Dan Rather)
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. (Quote by - Jacques Barzun)
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. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. (Quote by - Thomas Carruthers)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. (Quote by - Gail Godwin)
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
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. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - John Sculley)
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. (Quote by - Bob Talbert)
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. (Quote by - Karl Menninger)
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. (Quote by - John R. Kemble)
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. (Quote by - Eugene P. Bertin)
A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils. (Quote by - Ever Garrison)
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. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - K. Patricia Cross)
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. (Quote by - The Talmud)
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. (Quote by - Thomas Szaz)
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. (Quote by - Marva Collins)
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. (Quote by - Haim G. Ginott)
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. (Quote by - Mark Van Doren)
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children. (Quote by - Louis Johannot)
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. (Quote by - Helen Caldicott)
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. (Quote by - Japanese proverb)
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of wit or a market or a building. (Quote by - A. Bartlett Giamatti)
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we as teachers have failed. (Quote by - Marva Collins)
I am a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water, I do not part the sea. I just love children. (Quote by - Marva Collins)
A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it. (Quote by - Emile Capouya)
I touch the future. I teach. (Quote by - Christa McAuliffe)
Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily. (Quote by - Meryl Streep)
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility. (Quote by - Sharon M. Draper)
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. (Quote by - Galielo Galilei)
Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating. (Quote by - C.B. Neblette)
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child. (Quote by - Kathy Davis)
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. (Quote by - Josef Albers)
I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility. (Quote by - Howard Lester)
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. (Quote by - Jacob Bronowski)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. (Quote by - Emma Golmam)
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. (Quote by - Bob Talbert)
There is no education like adversity. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold,herein lies the first task of the teacher. (Quote by - Maria Montessori)
To teach is to learn twice. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
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. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. (Quote by - Frederick Sanger)
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study. (Quote by - Anton Seidl)
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. (Quote by - John Philip Sousa)
And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then. (Quote by - William Joyce)
And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful. (Quote by - Warren Beatty)
Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests. (Quote by - Mike Fitzpatrick)
As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty. (Quote by - Jon Porter)
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. (Quote by - Bill Moyers)
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates. (Quote by - Helen Dunmore)
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor. (Quote by - Barry Commoner)
As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden. (Quote by - John Warner)
Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world. (Quote by - Katherine Dunham)
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. (Quote by - Laura Linney)
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. (Quote by - Ralph Allen)
At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children. (Quote by - Mark Kennedy)
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. (Quote by - Charles William Eliot)
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. (Quote by - Robert Sternberg)
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers. (Quote by - Frederic William Farrar)
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself. (Quote by - Sonny Perdue)
Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms. (Quote by - Mitch Daniels)
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation. (Quote by - Conrad Burns)
Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals. (Quote by - Ruben Hinojosa)
Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers. (Quote by - Mike Fitzpatrick)
Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it. (Quote by - Marguerite Moreau)
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. (Quote by - Hugh Mackay)
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class. (Quote by - C. Everett Koop)
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. (Quote by - Roald Dahl)
Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes. (Quote by - John Podesta)
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. (Quote by - Lloyd Alexander)
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children. (Quote by - John Doolittle)
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles. (Quote by - Xun Zi)
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage. (Quote by - Margaret Whiting)
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so. (Quote by - Eduard Shevardnadze)
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill. (Quote by - Julien Benda)
I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. (Quote by - Francis Ford Coppola)
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models. (Quote by - Solomon Ortiz)
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides. (Quote by - Kyan Douglas)
I learned life from some good teachers. (Quote by - Eddie Murray)
I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about. (Quote by - Tim Robbins)
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child. (Quote by - Mary A. Ward)
I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me. (Quote by - Yvonne Strahovski)
I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes. (Quote by - Julie Bowen)
I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up. (Quote by - Maya Lin)
I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. (Quote by - Francis Ford Coppola)
I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me. (Quote by - Sanford I. Weill)
I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea. (Quote by - Norton Juster)
