Teaching Quotes And Sayings

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“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
– John Cotton Dana

“Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”
– John Lubbock

“A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she’s looking at.”
– John R. Kemble

“We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.”
– John Sculley

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
– John Steinbeck

“The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can’t.”
– Jonathan Alter

“To teach is to learn twice.”
– Joseph Joubert

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”
– K. Patricia Cross

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
– Karl Menninger

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
– Khalil Gibran

“Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.”
– Kobo Abe

“By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.”
– Latin Proverb

“The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.”
– Leo Rosten

“The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have.”
– Leonard Nimoy

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
– Lily Tomlin As “Edith Ann”

“It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.”
– Linda Conway

“There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.”
– Lola May

“A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.”
– Louis A. Berman

“The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.”
– Louis Johannot

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
– Malcom Gladwel

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.”
– Margaret Fuller

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

“When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.”
– Mark Twain

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

“Teaching is of more importance than urging.”
– Martin Luther

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.”
– Marva Collins

“Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.”
– Marva Collins

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