Teacher Quotes
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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."
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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.
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.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
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.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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.
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.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
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.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.