277) From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before

the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so,
maybe for twenty years.
-- Jacques Barzun-- Helen Hayes

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.

-- Author Unknown

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.

-- Author Unknown

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
-- Bob Talbert

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

-- Mark Van Doren

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
-- 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

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward

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 Cross

There is no education like adversity.

-- Benjamin Disraeli
 To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold,herein lies the

first task of the teacher.
-- Maria Montessori

To teach is to learn twice.

-- Joseph Joubert

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

-- Karl Menninger

Being a great teacher is very challenging and rewarding work.

You have in your hands the power to influence and mould a

student's mind. You have within you the capacity to instill in the
child a love for learning, to keep an open mind and to keep
questioning. You have the ability to promote confidence, stir
thinking and awaken dreams...

Diligence is a great teacher.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these
only gave life, those the art of living well

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is
confidence and enthusiasm.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his
listener with the wish to teach himself.

~ Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society
because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. ~
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides
homework

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop
students who can create their own image.

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~

~ A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for
others. ~

"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."