Teacher Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”
– Bruce Coville

“A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.”
– Buddha quotes

“The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you’re smarter than they are. You’re not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.”
– Charles Benoit

“Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man’s neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul’s bright torch as fast as it is kindled!”
– Charles Dickens

“You can’t tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God… So I think the distinction is that there’s a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.”
– Charles Stanley

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
– Charles W. Eliot quotes

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
– Charles William Eliot

“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”
– Chinese Proverbs quotes

“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

“I don’t care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.”
– Colleen Hoover

“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
– Colleen Wilcox quotes

“The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”
– Confucius

“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

“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”
– Confucius quotes

“I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word ‘existentialism.’”
– Craig Ferguson

“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

“I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.”
– Dan Savage

“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

“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

“Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?”
– Diane Ravitch

“If you don’t read, I don’t know how to communicate with you…I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.”
– Donalyn Miller

“The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.”
– Donna Quesada

“I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.”
– Dr. Haim Ginott quotes

“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”
– Dr. Haim Ginott quotes

“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

“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

“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

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