Best Teachers And Teaching Quotes
114 Teachers And Teaching quotes by 81 unique authors
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Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive
— Joseph Weizenbaum
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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
— George Bernard Shaw
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Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.
— Richard Howard
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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
— Lee Child
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The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding…
— Lowell Milken
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To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and…
— Arne Duncan
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When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of…
— Arne Duncan
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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their…
— John W. Gardner
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
— Bill Gates
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of…
— Khalil Gibran
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Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
— Haim Ginott
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
— Angela Davis
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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down…
— Phyllis Diller
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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and…
— Peter Drucker
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Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
— Arne Duncan
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
— Charles William Eliot
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
— Maria Montessori
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
— Ralph Nader
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the…
— Andres Segovia
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
— Baruch Spinoza
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
— William Arthur Ward
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What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in…
— Paulo Coelho
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
— William Faulkner
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