Quotes About Teachers And Teaching

by allinspiration.com

“Those who know how to think need no teachers.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.”
– Maria Callas

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’”
– Maria Montessori

“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.”
– Maria Montessori

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
– Mark Van Doren

“The single most important thing in a child’s performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.”
– Michael Gove

“The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.”
– Michael Porter

“The thing I loved the most – and still love the most about teaching – is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”
– Minna Antrim

“Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.”
– Morihei Ueshiba

“My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.”
– Mother Jones

“I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: ‘Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Let’s reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools – and use it on the teachers.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.”
– Paul Twitchell

“I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.”
– Paul Wellstone

“Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses’ interests, not the members.”
– Peter Brimelow

“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

“I’m embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.”
– Phil Mcgraw

“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.”
– Philip Wylie

“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.”
– Robert Frost

“Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth. They protect it. That’s crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don’t create the wealth themselves.”
– Rush Limbaugh

“I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.”
– Scott Hamilton

“Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.”
– Sidney Hook

“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.”
– Simone Weil

“It’s not the teaching, it’s the learning.”
– Sly Stone

“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
– Solomon Ortiz

“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”
– Stevie Wonder

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