Teacher Quotes
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
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.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
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 learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
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.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
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.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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."
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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 whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.