Quotes

Quotes on Teachers and Education

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre. " ~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

"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations." ~Patricia Neal

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." ~William Arthur Ward

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." ~Thomas Carruthers

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ~Socrates

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." ~Mark Van Doren

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. " ~Samuel Johnson

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." ~Carl Rogers

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." ~Derek Bok

A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops -- Henry Adams

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation. --Marcus Tullius Cicero

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. -John Lubbock

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. --Aristotle

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching?
- -Harriet Martineau

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. --Latin Proverb

Education is the mother of leadership.
--Wendell L. Willkie

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. --Bishop Hall

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.--Ben Sweetland

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge.
--Albert Einstein

Whatever you want to teach, be brief. --Horace

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.
I do and I understand. --Chinese Proverb

A child mis-educated is a child lost.
--John F. Kennedy

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