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