Quotes About Teachers And Teaching

by allinspiration.com

“If I can make a teacher‘s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher.”
– Dave Chappelle

“Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.”
– David E. Kelley

“The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.”
– David E. Price

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
– Denis Waitley

“We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.”
– Donald Norman

“We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It’s not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.”
– Donna Shalala

“Everybody’s a teacher if you listen.”
– Doris Roberts

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”
– Dr. Seuss

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Every 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 Gibbon

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.”
– Elisabeth Rohm

“A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.”
– Ellen Ochoa

“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.”
– Eric Hoffer

“Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
– Flannery O’Connor

“TV is bigger than any story it reports. It’s the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.”
– Fred W. Friendly

“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.”
– Frederick William Robertson

“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.”
– Gerald Jampolsky

“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
– Gertrude Jekyll

“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.”
– Gilbert Highet

“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.”
– Gracie Allen

“The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.”
– H. G. Wells

“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”
– H. Rap Brown

“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.”
– Harry Callahan

“I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.”
– Harry S. Truman

“For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.”
– Heidi Klum

“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”
– Helen Keller

“A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.”
– Henny Youngman

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