PinI have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. – Khalil GibranPinI cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think. – SocratesPinEducation breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. – ConfuciusPinEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson MandelaPinTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin FranklinPinIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert EinsteinPinTeaching is the greatest act of optimism. – Colleen WilcoxPinYou have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. – Swami VivekanandaPinEducation is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John DeweyPinWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. – Joseph Addison
20 Quotes on Teaching to Become a Good Teacher
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
Thurgood Marshall
PinTo this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher. – John StrachanPinA good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. – Brad Henry
“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”
PinI cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. – Temple GrandinPinOne good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. – Philip Wylie
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
PinI am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. – Alexander the GreatPinEducation is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. – Solomon OrtizPinThe mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William A. WardPinI touch the future. I teach. – Christa McAuliffePinGood teachers know how to bring out the best in students. – Charles KuraltPinWhat the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. – Karl MeningerPinThe one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. – AristotlePinA good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others. – Mustafa Kemal AtatürkPinThe task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. – C. S. LewisPinTeachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. – Joyce MeyerPinA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry AdamsPinA teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace MannPinTake away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. – Soren Kierkegaard
12 Motivational Quotes on Teaching
“The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.”
Dan Rather
PinIf someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. – Jim RohnPinEducation is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats
“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.”
Steve Harvey
PinProsperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. – William HazlittPinStudents don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
PinYour best teacher is your last mistake. – Ralph NaderPinEvery man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. – Edward GibbonPinYou cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. – GalileoPinIf a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. – Romain RollandPinExperience teaches only the teachable. – Aldous Huxley
13 Quotes on Teaching a Child
“Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.”
Rita Pierson
PinChildren must be taught how to think, not what to think. – Margaret MeadPinWhat we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. – George Bernard Shaw
“If kids come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.”
Barbara Colorose
PinIt takes a big heart to help shape little minds.PinWe spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. – Phyllis Diller
“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.”
PinThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. – Anatole FrancePinMy heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed! – Anne Sullivan
“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
Pin[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. – Jim HensonPinOne child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. – Malala YousafzaiPinThe object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. – Elbert Hubbard
10 Quotes on Teaching and Learning
PinTeaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding. – William Arthur WardPinI never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. – Albert EinsteinPinYou can teach a student a lesson for a day, but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. – Clay P. BedfordPinYou never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student. – Elisabeth RohmPinEverybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. – Oscar WildePinThe world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. – Bertolt BrechtPinIn learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. – Phil CollinsPinReal learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. – J. KrishnamurtiPinBodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – PlatoPinNo one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. – Peter Drucker
2 Quotes on Teaching Philosophy and History
PinThose who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. – Carter G. WoodsonPinHistory is Philosophy teaching by example. – Thucydides
16 Thought-Provoking Quotes on Teaching
“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”
Confucius
PinEverybody’s a teacher if you listen. – Doris RobertsPinA self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. – Henny Youngman
“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
PinWhat a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. – Helen KellerPinI think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. – John WoodenPinThe impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade. – David PricePinThe art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. – Mark Van DorenPinThe most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. – Simone WeilPinThose who know, do. Those that understand, teach. – AristotlePinIn a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. – Lee IacoccaPinWhen I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. – Sylvester StallonePinThose who know how to think need no teachers. – Mahatma GandhiPinThe five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. – Bruce BartonPinIf you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes. – Guy KawasakiPinMost 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. – Andy Rooney
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