Teacher Quotes

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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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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Morning

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• Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

  Sidney Hook

  Education, Teaching, Heart

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• Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

  Helen Caldicott

  Appreciation, Teaching, Believe

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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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, Teaching

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• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

  Aristotle

  Teaching, Humor, Deep Thought

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• Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Yoga

  1997 In the Independent on Sunday, 12 Oct.

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• The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Teaching, Average

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

  George Santayana

  Education, Children, Teaching

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

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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, Teaching

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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

  Appreciation, Educational, Teaching

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• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Believe, Believe In You

  Dan Rather (1984). “The Camera Never Blinks”, Ballantine Books

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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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• A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

  Gilbert Highet

  Wise, Teaching, Laughing

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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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, Teaching

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• The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Retirement, Teaching, Literature

  "Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers". Volume XXII,

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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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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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• Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Peace, Children, Educational

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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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• Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Literature, Six

  "A profession brought back to life" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2005.

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