Retired Teacher Quotes

• A man can't retire his experience.

  Bernard Baruch

  Retirement, Experience, Ciphers

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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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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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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 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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• Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Retirement, Business

  "Wisdom for Our Time". Book by James Nelson, 1961.

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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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• Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

  Richard Armour

  Teacher, Retirement, Tired

  Richard Armour (1976). “Going Like Sixty: A Lighthearted Look at the Later Years”

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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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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• 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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• 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 teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

  Anne Michaels

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.121, Emblem Editions

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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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• Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

  Gene Perret

  Retirement, Home, Forever

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• Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

  Gene Perret

  Retirement, Worry, Age

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• There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

  Groucho Marx

  Retirement, Work, Age

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", August 20, 1930.

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• When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Retirement, Husband, Wife

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• I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

  Gene Perret

  Success, Retirement, Age

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• Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

  Henny Youngman

  Teacher, Teaching, Assessment

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• Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

  Gene Perret

  Inspirational, Retirement, Stress

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• The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

  Ella Harris

  Retirement, Jobs, Husband

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• 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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