The Most Famous Teacher
in the world:
China’s Great Teachers,
Philosophers:
The below quotes or sayings are
adapted from: The Quote Garden
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about
besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"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." ~Dan RatherIn teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and
remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun
Teaching creates all other professions. ~Author Unknown
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time,
all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be
there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist,
without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence
for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom
teacher's job. ~Donald D. QuinnModern 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.
~John F. KennedyA teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
~Thomas Carruthers
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
~Gail Godwin
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with
a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or
choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a
great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared
by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education
rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom
of the institutional pyramid. ~Tracy KidderA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry Brooks Adams
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way
for others. ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from Turkish
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
~Margaret Fuller
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 AlcottA 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 SculleyGood teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The
superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~William Arthur WardThe best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes,
and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~Edward Bulwer-LyttonA teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but
to develop students who can create their own image.
~Author UnknownWhat the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
~Karl Menninger
Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
~Author Unknown
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.
~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and
edited by John R. Kemble, 1902Teaching 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. Berti
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that teaching is like cultivating
a garden, and those who would
have nothing to do with thorns
must never attempt to gather
flowers. ~Author UnknownTeachers who inspire realize
there will always be rocks in
the road ahead of us. They
will be stumbling blocks or
stepping stones; it all
depends on how
we use them. ~Author UnknownTeaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
~Jacques Barzun
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. ~Carl JungA teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are
well-grounded. ~D. Martin
What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.
~Author Unknown
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 GibranDiscover wildlife: be a teacher! ~Author Unknown
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.
~K. Patricia CrossWhen you teach your son, you teach your son's son. ~The Talmud
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
~Author Unknown
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals
simplicity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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. ~Author Unknown
2 Teach is
2 Touch lives
4 Ever
~Author Unknown
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana
A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every
child's eyes. ~Author Unknown
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
~Thomas Szaz
To teach is to learn twice. ~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what
you just learned this morning. ~Author Unknown
Teachers touch the future. ~Author Unknown
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 CollinsThe object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without
his teacher. ~Elbert Hubbard
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 DruckerTeachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate
tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible
task. ~Haim G. GinottThe art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren
Quotations From Teachers:
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is
because it helps me to forgive their children. ~Louis Johannot
If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at
If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at
school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
~Anonymous Teacher
