Teacher Quotes - Page 6

• Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Education, Kindness

  "The Works of John Ruskin: The crown of wild olive".

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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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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

  Tracy Kidder

  Teaching, School, Skills

  Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Beautiful, Education

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.258, Random House

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• Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

  Minna Antrim

  Cynical, Experience, Bills

  "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions". Book by Minna Antrim, 1901.

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• Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teaching

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• To teach is to learn twice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Excellence, Mediocrity, Exemplary

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.142, John Wiley & Sons

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• 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

  Education, Appreciation, Children

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.

  Gilbert Highet

  Wise, Laughter, Minutes

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• He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Education, Masters

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.9

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

  Taylor Mali

  Differences, Making A Difference, Break

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.7, Penguin

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Education, Believe

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

  Jay Mohr

  Funny, Movie, Senior

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• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

  Sidney Sugarman

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Inspirational, Education, Retirement

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.

  Oscar Arias

  Country, Children, Believe

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