Teacher Quotes
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.