Teacher Quotes - Page 3

• When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Teaching, Hard Work

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• The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Retirement, Teaching, Literature

  "Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers". Volume XXII,

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• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

  Jacques Barzun

  Appreciation, Educational, Teaching

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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, Yoga

  1997 In the Independent on Sunday, 12 Oct.

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• 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

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

  Eliphas Levi

  Teaching, Able, Great Education

  Eliphas Levi (2000). “The Great Secret, Or, Occultism Unveiled”, p.174, Weiser Books

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• Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

  Bodhidharma

  Retirement, Teaching, Helping

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.15, Macmillan

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• What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Appreciation, Retirement, Teaching

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• When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Teaching, Mean

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.390, Courier Corporation

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  Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

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• The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

  Marva Collins

  Teaching, Students, Poor

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• I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

  Paul Wellstone

  Children, Teaching, Creativity

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• Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.55

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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, Teaching, Goal

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

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• Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

  Joe Manchin

  Family, Children, Caring

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• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Memories, Teaching

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Writing, Want, Masters

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• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

  Dan Rather

  Thank You, Education, Dream

  Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

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• The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

  Pat Conroy

  Reason, Embrace, Aspects Of Life

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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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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• Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Literature, Six

  "A profession brought back to life" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2005.

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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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• The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Teaching

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.470, Best Books on

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