Good Teacher Quotes - Page 2

• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  Ralph Nader

  Success, Teacher, Retirement

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• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

  Plutarch

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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• We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• So you have to take the good with the bad.

  Candace Parker

  Smile, Life Going On, Goes On

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• We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

  John Sculley

  Leadership, Teacher, Children

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• A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

  Thomas Szasz

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

  'The Second Sin' (1973) 'Education'

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• True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

  John Cotton Dana

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

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• Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Teacher

  1997 In the Independent on Sunday, 12 Oct.

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• A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Relationship, Teacher, Raises Questions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Success, Teacher, Humble

  "Shah Rukh Khan: 'Failure makes you humble'" by Priya Joshi, www.digitalspy.com. May 31, 2012.

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• A good teacher is a determined person

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Determined, Persons

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• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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• I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Autism, Enough

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

  Haim Ginott

  Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching

  "Teacher and child". Book by Haim Ginott, 1972.

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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