Great Teaching Quotes - Page 3

• The children are now working as if I did not exist.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Teacher, Children

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

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

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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

  Sidney Sugarman

  Education, Teacher, Children

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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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• A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Thank You, Appreciation, Teacher

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  Mark Van Doren

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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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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• 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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• Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”

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• One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Life, Success, Education

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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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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• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Dream, Teacher

  Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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• Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  John Steinbeck

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

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• Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

  William Arthur Ward

  Teacher, Learning, Understanding

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• Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Teacher, Teaching

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• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  B. F. Skinner

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  New Scientist 21 May 1964

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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 task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

  James Dewar

  Funny, Education, Attitude

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• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  H. G. Wells

  Education, Appreciation, Witty

  Outline of History (1920) vol. 2, ch. 41, pt. 4

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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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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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