Teacher Quotes
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.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
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.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
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.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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."
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
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.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.