Retirement Teacher Humor For A Good Laugh

by allinspiration.com

“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

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ”
– Elizabeth Wharton

“The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself. ”
– Evelyn Waugh

“We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.”
– Evelyn Waugh

“I wish to take this opportunity to extend my gratitude to you for your cooperation, understanding, and support during my employment here. I would also like to express my appreciation to my fellow teachers and other colleagues for their support and friendship throughout my stay here.”
– Excerpt from a retirement letter for teachers

“Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.”
– Fawn M. Brodie

“Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ”
– Francoise Duc de La Rochefoucould

“Why not go out on a limb. Isn’t that where the fruit is? ”
– Frank Scully

“Some people do not become deep thinkers simply because their memories are too good. ”
– Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. ”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Retirement is the beginning of life not the end.”
– from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free

“If you don’t want to be a teacher, you’d better get off this planet.”
– from Messiah’s Handbook by Richard Bach

“A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.”
– G. C. Lichtenberg

“There is a path from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ”
– G.K. Chesterton

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ”
– Gail Godwin

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. ”
– Galileo

“Retirement: It’s nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese. ”
– Gene Perret

“I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead- ahead of myself as well as you.”
– George Bernard Shaw

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

“Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.”
– Glenn Beck

“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

“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?”
– Harriet Martineau

“Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

“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

“I’m not just retiring from the company, I’m also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. ”
– Hartman Jule

“The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all. ”
– Heinrich Heine

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

“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.”
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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