“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
“Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.”
“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” - Chinese Proverbs quotes
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” - William Arthur Ward quotes (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)
“To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.”
“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.” - Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
“A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
“When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.” - kristenb024 Sasha Azevedo quotes (American Actress, Athlete and Model)
“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”- Ignacio Estrada quotes
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.” - Patricia Neal quotes
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.” - Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” - Charles W. Eliot quotes (American University President of Harvard University for 40 years, 1834-1926)
“I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.” - kathyoj Dr. Haim Ginott quotes
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”- Colleen Wilcox quotes
“Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under”
“More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given” - Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."” - Maria Montessori quotes (Italian Physician and Educator. 1870-1952)
“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer” - Alice Wellington Rollins quotes
“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 quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” - G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)
“Those who cannot teach - administrate”
“We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.” - Sasha Azevedo quotes (American Actress, Athlete and Model)
“No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.” - Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
“There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly” - Lola May quotes
“If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.” - Barbara Colorose quotes
“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 F. Drucker quotes (American Educator and Writer, b.1909)
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”- Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)
“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.” - Phyllis Diller quotes (American comedienne and actress, born 1917)
“The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon”
“A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.” - Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” - Mark van Doren quotes (American Writer and Educator, 1894-1972)
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.” - Dr. Haim Ginott quotes
“One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been”
“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 quotes (American Educator. b.1936)
“Teachers are those who help us in resolving problems which, without them, we wouldn't have”
“I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach” - Bill Muse quotes
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.” - George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
“Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.” - George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
“The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy”- Anatole France quotes (French Writer, member of the French Academy and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921, 1844-1924)