Teachers and teaching Quotes · Page 2

Often when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got…

— Rick Sutter

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Educators don't necessarily have to teach. Instead, they can provide an environment and resources that tease out your natural ability to learn…

— Suman Rai

The secret of substitute teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon. . .

— Rick Sutter

If teachers are not allowed to teach unless they do what they preach, no one will ever teach.

— Rachid Moussaid

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.

— Anonymous

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. . .

— Rick Sutter

Childrens ambitions in school are often a glass ceiling, an obstacle to what they can accomplish.

— Alastair Arnott

Teacher is a learned one who facilitates the students to identify their potent and latent talent features to better the world with…

— Anuj Somany

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no…

— Bertrand Russell

A good learner is he who respects what he learnt and from whom. We also encounter people who will learn and try…

— Sanji-Paul Arvind

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying…

— K. Patricia Cross

I just learned this sub-teaching. . . Teacher (math problem): If you had five apples on your desk and the boy next…

— Rick Sutter

Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In…

— Eric Butterworth

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying…

— Anatole France

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view…

— Abraham Lincoln

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

— John Steinbeck

The purpose of education is to enlighten the student as to how to use their own mind, rather than to fill it…

— Anonymous

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot" rather than how to shoot it.

— Larry Hawkins

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

— Anonymous

Your failure may be your greatest teacher and your success may be your greatest grade in the class called life.

— Anonymous

Wisdom is not facts and repetitions of truth repeated back in a pressurised situation such as in an exam hall.

— Alastair Arnott

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

— Andy Hargreaves

Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations

— Hebrew Proverb

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

— Helen Caldicott

A loving, caring teacher took a liking to me. She noticed the potential and wanted to help shape it.

— Tom Bradley

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

— Josef Albers

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

— Albert Einstein

Encourage your children to read. Reading can unlock the keys to a whole world of information. Parents are teachers, both by example…

— Anonymous

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

— Vern Law

I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of…

— Bill Muse

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

— Confucius

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

— John Dewey

Women are the best teachers in the universe, because they teach men how to love in a very innocent way.

— Anonymous

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

— Carl Jung

Experience is a teacher who never tells you in advance what your next lesson will be.

— Melchor Lim

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle…

— Frederick William Robertson

If you're feeling blue. . . Try painting yourself a different color. (Words of wisdom for a second grader)

— Rick Sutter

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

— Ignacio Estrada

We all know that we are not perfect? So why do we act as if this is the case & hold ourselves…

— Alastair Arnott