Teacher Quotes

• TEACHER QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
  John Sculley


• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
  Lily Tomlin


• Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
  Author Unknown


• 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


• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
  John Cotton Dana


• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
  Gail Godwin


• 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


• To teach is to learn twice.
  Joseph Joubert


• 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


• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
  Henry Brooks Adams


• 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


• 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


• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
  Haim G. Ginott


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


• 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


• When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
  The Talmud


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


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


• 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 best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
  Author Unknown


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

Thanks for passing by my teacher quotes. Till next time.




Return From Teacher Quotes To Life Quotes

Return From Teacher Quotes To Homepage

New! Comments