Best Teacher Quotes - Page 2

• You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

  Louis L'Amour

  Teacher, Advice, Answers

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.202, Bantam

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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, Teacher, Children

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• Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Teacher, Kids, School

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

  Lily Tomlin

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.

  Mardy Grothe

  Teacher, Answers

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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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• The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Teacher, Mean, Thinking

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• I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

  Beverly Cleary

  Teacher, Children, Real

  "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.

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• The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Powerful, Teaching

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• That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

  Maria Callas

  Education, Teacher, Mean

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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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• 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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• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Education, Teacher

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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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• The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961.

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• If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Teacher, Happy New Year

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Teacher

  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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• A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

  Walter Bagehot

  Teacher, Fear, Teaching

  Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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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

  Teacher, Appreciation, Educational

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• Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

  Andy Andrews

  Teacher, People, Noticer

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2015

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

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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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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