Quotes on teachers
There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
To teach is to learn twice.
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Isocrates Quotes
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Henry Adams Quotes
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."
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Dan Rather Quotes
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.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
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Mark van Doren Quotes
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.
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Marva Collins Quotes
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Lily Tomlin Quotes
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.
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Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
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Bob Talbert Quotes
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
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Thomas Szasz Quotes
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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Jacques Barzun Quotes
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.
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Louis Johannot Quotes
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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William Arthur Ward Quotes
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
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Haim G. Ginott Quotes
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
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John Cotton Dana Quotes
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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Author Unknown Quotes
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
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Louis A. Berman 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.
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Peter Drucker 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.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
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John Sculley Quotes
A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.
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Ever Garrison Quotes
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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Gail Godwin Quotes
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.
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Andy Rooney Quotes
In teaching, you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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Jacques Barzun Quotes
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes