"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his
influence stops."
--Henry Brooks Adams
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right
answers.
Josef Albers
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal
influences...
--Amos Alcott
Education is understanding relationships."
George Washington Carver
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein
lies the first task of the teacher.
Maria Montessori
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives. -- Robert Maynard Hutchins
"Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of
society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth."
Helen Caldicott, author and peace activist
"The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who
believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau,
sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."
Dan Rather
"Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people
is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care."
Horace Mann
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. -- Marva Collins
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater. "
Gail Godwin
"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others
"
Tryon Edwards
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring
the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."
Horace Mann
"When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means
trouble."
Mark Twain
"Education, then, beyond all other devices of human
origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man...."
Horace Mann
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher,
though, awakens your own expectations."
Patricia Neal
"The mediocre teacher tells. Being able to help someone
learn something is a talent.
Margaret Riel
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike
our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler
Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind
with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Teaching, is not just a job. It is a human service, and
it must be thought of as a mission.
Dr. Ralph Tyler
"Compassionate teachers fill a void left by working
parents who aren't able to devote enough attention to their children. Teachers
don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to
mature, to understand the world and to understand themselves. A good education
consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills."
Charles Platt
"The future of the world is in my classroom today, a
future with the potential for good or bad... Several future presidents are
learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades, and so are
all the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. I
must never forget these same young people could be the thieves and murderers of
the future. Only a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest
profession of all! I must be vigilant every day, lest I lose one fragile
opportunity to improve tomorrow."
Ivan Welton Fitzwater
Knowing it and applying it are two different things.
Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
Haitian proverb
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
Mary McLeod Bethune
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making
discoveries for ones self.
George Washington Carver
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok, President, Harvard University
I touch the future. I teach.
Christa McAuliffe
The greatest discoveries all start with the question "WHY?"
Dr. Robert D. Ballard
I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Be very, very careful what you put into that head,
because you will never, ever get it out.
Cardinal Wolsey
"There's no word in the language I revere more than
'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always
has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher."
Pat Conroy, Prince of Tides
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
William Arthur Ward
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
Mark Van Doren
"If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years,
plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed
once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a
hundred harvests."
Kuan Chung
"There is an old saying that the course of civilization is
a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must
make sure that education wins the race."
John F. Kennedy
"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day
with a great teacher."
Japanese proverb
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening
the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
Anatole France
"Information is the currency of democracy."
Ralph Nader
"Above all things I hope the education of the common
people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with
most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or
eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
Henry Ford
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant
teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The
curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element
for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
Carl Jung
"Education is light, lack of it darkness."
Russian proverb
"Whoever first coined the phrase 'you're the wind beneath
my wings' most assuredly was reflecting on the sublime influence of a very
special teacher."
Frank Trujillo
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be
teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less."
Lee Iacocca
"Be all that you can be. Find your future--as a teacher."
Madeline Fuchs Holzer
