Archive for August, 2009
Quotes On Teachers In English
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
by: Alvin Toffler
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
by: William Ward
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
by: Edward Bulwer
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
by: Horace Mann
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
by: Jacques Barzun
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
by: Woody Allen
The work can wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.
by: Patricia Clafford
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
by: M. Russell Ballard
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
by: James Truslow Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
by: Henry Brooks Adams
A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.
by: Ever Garrison
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
by: Anonymous
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
by: Confucius
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
by: Edith Ann
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
by: Woody Allen
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
by: Vernon Law
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
by: Henry Brooks Adams
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless.
by: Mother Teresa
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
by: Louis A. Berman
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
by: Bob Talbert
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
by: Kurt Herbert
Good teacher is one fourth preparation and three fourths theater.
by: Gail Godwin
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
by: Mark Twain
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
by: Joseph Addison
Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
by: George Orwell
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
by: Thomas Carruthers
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
by: Paul Anderson
Whether you think you can or think you can’t you are right.
by: Henry Ford
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
by: William Adams
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
by: Karl Menninger
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
by: John Ruskin
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
by: Latin Proverb
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
by: Bob Talbert
He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
by: Anonymous
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
by: Henri
Teach a child how to think, not what to think.
by: Sidney Sugarman
Education is the best provision for old age.
by: Aristotle
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
by: Æschylus
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
by: Aristophenes
One father is worth 100 schoolmasters.
by: George Herbert
Don’t set your wit against a child.
by: Johnathan Swift
To teach is to touch lives forever.
by: Anonymous
Teacher: The child’s third parent.
by: Hyman Berston
I touch the future. I teach.
by: Christa McAuliffe
To teach is to learn twice.
by: Joseph Joubert
Wit is educated insolence.
by: Aristot