Quotations about Teachers and Teaching
Prepared by
Sabarish P
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
If you would thoroughly know
anything, teach it to others.
Tryon
Edwards
We cannot hold a torch to light
another's path without brightening our own.
Ben
Sweetland
Grammar speaks; dialectics teach us
truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings;
arithmetic numbers; geometry weighs and measures;
astronomy
teaches us to know the stars.
Latin
Maxim
To know how to suggest is the great
art of teaching.
Henri
Frederic Amiel
We learn by teaching.
James
Howell
Natural ability is by far the best,
but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is
the fruit of teaching.
Pindar
It is the supreme art of the teacher
to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert
Einstein
The most effective teacher will
always be biased,
for the chief force in teaching is confidence
and enthusiasm.
Joyce
Cary
Education is the guardian genius of
democracy.
It is the only dictator that free men recognize,
and
the only ruler that free men require.
Mirabeau
Buonaparte Lamar
Whatever you want to teach, be
brief.
Horace
To me, education is a leading out of
what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel
Spark
Nine-tenths of education is
encouragement.
Anatole
France
The true aim of every one who
aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own
opinions,
but to kindle minds.
F.
W. Robertson
He that teaches us anything which we
knew not
before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a
master.
Samuel
Johnson
I hear and I forget. I see and I
remember.
I do and I understand.
Chinese
Proverb
Be careful to leave your sons
well
instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the
instructed are better
than the wealth of the
ignorant.
Epictetus
I am indebted to my father for
living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander
of Macedon
To know how to suggest is the great
art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will
interest: we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece
of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction
anil vary the song.
Henri
Frederic Amiel
Teaching is not a lost art,
but
the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques
Barzun
Education is the transmission of
civilization.
Will
Durant
To teach is to learn twice
over.
Joseph Joubert
A schoolmaster should have an
atmosphere of awe,
and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at
being himself.
Newton
D. Baker
One good teacher in a lifetime may
sometimes
change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip
Wylie
A child
miseducated is a child lost.
John
F. Kennedy
A master can
tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens
your own expectations.
Patricia
Neal
And one silly quote just for fun....
Never try to
teach a pig to sing....it wastes
your time and annoys the
pig.
Anonymous
Prepared by
Sabarish P
