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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 Rather
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so,
maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the 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. Quinn
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. ~John F. Kennedy
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 Kidder
A 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.
~Author Unknown
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 Alcott
Good 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 Ward
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his
listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop
students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown
What 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,
1902
Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those
who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
~Author Unknown
Teachers 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 Unknown
Teaching 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 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. ~Kahlil Gibran
When 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
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana
There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August. ~Author
Unknown
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ~Thomas Szaz
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just
learned this morning. ~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 Collins
The 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 Drucker
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The
miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ~Haim G. Ginott
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren
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
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry
Adams
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides
homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
~Author Unknown
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 Rather
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. Quinn
I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no
bottom. ~Author Unknown
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ~William Shakespeare
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of
another. Thank you. ~Author Unknown
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~Jacques
Barzun
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so,
maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.
The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ~Author Unknown
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick
There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August. ~Author
Unknown
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author
Unknown
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
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. ~Khalil Gibran
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
~Eric Hoffer
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude
is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William A. Ward
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped
you. ~John E. Southard
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary
lives. ~Tracy Chapman
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving
it. ~William Arthur Ward
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 Jung
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents,
for these only gave life,
those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of
this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Bishop Hall
We learn by teaching.
James Howell
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in
winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
Pindar
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not
to impart his own opinions,
but to kindle minds.
F. W. Robertson
• "Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." - Jacques
Barzun
• "Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more." - Bob Talbert
• "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 Alcott
• "A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others."
-Anonymous
• "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."
- Eugene P. Bertin
• "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward
• "A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop
students who can create their own image." - Anonymous
• "What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." - Karl Menninger
• "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 Rather
• "In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains
so, maybe for twenty years." - Jacques Barzun
• "Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions." - Anonymous
• "The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book." - Anonymous
• "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry
Brooks Adams
• "Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society
because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth." - Helen Caldicott
• "Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."
-Japanese proverb
• "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of
young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." -Anatole France
• "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these
only gave life, those the art of living well." - Aristotle
• "A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money" -
Anonymous