Quotes on teachers
There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.
Unknown, Author
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.
Alcott, Amos Bronson
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Adams, Henry
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Doren, Mark van
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
Szasz, Thomas
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Ward, William Arthur
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Ginott, Haim G.
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
Unknown, Author
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
Berman, Louis A.
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.
Gibran, Kahlil
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
Sculley, John
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Godwin, Gail
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Rooney, Andy