Teaching Quotes

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It is not so important to have all the answers as to be hungry for them. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. — Plato
The best teachers are the best storytellers. — Frank Smith
I must yield to you, for you are irresistible. — Plato
Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality. — Marshall Gregory
It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard… — Robert Audi
The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance. — Robert Audi
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal… — Robert Audi
I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners. I believe that… — Unknown Author
A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw. — John Goodlad
Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life. — Peter Block
Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do. — Peter Senge
Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as… — Lisa Delpit
To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning-… — Peter Block
Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth… — Peter Block
Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished — Carol Ann Tomlinson
It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology are teaching us… — Unknown Author
...but what has been said once can always be repeated. — Zeno of Elea
A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe. — Unknown Author

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