Quotes About Teachers And Teaching

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collation of sayings and quotes about teachers and teaching. Some are funny, most are inspirational.

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”
– A. Bartlett Giamatti

“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”
– Abdul Kalam

“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
– Albert Camus

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein

“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
– Albert Einstein

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
– Alexander The Great

“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.”
– Alice Wellington Rollins

“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.”
– Amos Bronson Alcott

“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

“Most 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

“I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I’m lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.”
– Ann Bancroft

“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
– Aristotle

“Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.”
– Bainbridge Colby

“Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.”
– Beau Bridges

“There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.”
– Berenice Abbott

“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.”
– Bertolt Brecht

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.”
– Bill Gates

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
– Bill Gates

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
– Bill Gates

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

“Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.”
– Bodhidharma

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.”
– Brad Henry

“The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.”
– Bruce Barton

“Suffering is one of life‘s great teachers.”
– Bryant H. Mcgill

“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 have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”
– Carter G. Woodson

“I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.”
– Charles Schumer

“A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.”
– Chris Christie

“In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We’ve got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.”
– Chuck Norris

“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

“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.”
– Dalai Lama

“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 high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, ‘Me? You’ve got to be joking!’ I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.”
– Danica Mckellar

“Students never think it can be the teacher’s fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn’t do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it’s how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.”
– Danica Mckellar

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