TEACHER QUOTESTEACHER QUOTES
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 and shut up.
-Phyllis Diller
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 and shut up.
-Phyllis Diller
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting
the lesson.- Vernon Law
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting
the lesson.- Vernon Law
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a
cold iron. - Horace Mann
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a
cold iron. - Horace Mann
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
- Latin Proverb
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
- Latin Proverb
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the
way they learn. -Ignacio Estrada
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the
way they learn. -Ignacio Estrada
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
-Colleen Wilcox
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
-Colleen Wilcox
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible
task.-Dr. Haim Ginott
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible
task.-Dr. Haim Ginott
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Ward
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Ward
"They may forget what you said, But they will never forget how you made them feel."
"They may forget what you said, But they will never forget how you made them feel."
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the
kind of car I drove . . . but the world maybe different because I
was important in the life of a child.- Kathy Davis
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the
kind of car I drove . . . but the world maybe different because I
was important in the life of a child.- Kathy Davis
I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I
possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be
escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized. -Dr. Haim Ginott
I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I
possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be
escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized. -Dr. Haim Ginott
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it
makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong,
healthy functioning families, it makes our job more important.
-Barbara Colorose
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it
makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong,
healthy functioning families, it makes our job more important.
-Barbara Colorose
No person can be a good teacher unless they have feelings of warm affection towards their pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what they believe to be of value.
-Bertrand Russell
No person can be a good teacher unless they have feelings of warm affection towards their pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what they believe to be of value.
-Bertrand Russell
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of
teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given. -Bertrand Russell
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of
teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given. -Bertrand Russell
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for
themselves.- Robert Hutchins
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for
themselves.- Robert Hutchins
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
- Thomas Carruthers
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
- Thomas Carruthers
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
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
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us
what life is all about.”
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us
what life is all about.”
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