Being A Teacher Quotes

• A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

  George Santayana

  Education, Teacher, Children

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

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• 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

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett

  Education, Freedom, War

  "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Memories, Learning

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

  Eliphas Levi

  Teacher, Teaching, Able

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

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• The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics”, p.148

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• There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Education, Stars, Clever

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Education, Teacher, Women

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

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• Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Education, Teacher

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

  Harriet Martineau

  Teacher, Teaching, Responsibility

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178

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• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

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

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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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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• [on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

  William Feather

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

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• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

  Joseph Addison

  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

  The Spectator, No. 215, November 6, 1711.

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• 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 and vary the song.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Song, Teacher, Art

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• There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

  Lola J. May

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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  The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Sweet

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Teacher, Soulmate, Teaching

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• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Funny, Witty, Teacher

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

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