Teacher Quotes - Page 40

• ...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Simple, One Day

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• I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

  Jenny Eclair

  Mother, Daughter, Teenager

  "This much I know". Interview With Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

  Quintilian

  Learning, Pride, Thinking

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

  Aristotle

  Children, Good Life, Learning

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• We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their own visions … not one that that merely succeeds in making apathetic students satisfy minimal standards.

  Seymour Papert

  Teaching, School, Vision

  "Vision for Education: The Caperton-Papert Platform" by Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, www.papert.org. August 1999.

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• The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

  Stephen Neal

  Teaching, Learning, Natural Gifts

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• Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

  John Dewey

  Learning, Calling, Dignity

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.95, SIU Press

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• To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Educational, Teaching

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• To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Business, Teaching

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1350, Ravenio Books

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• When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, such as parent, teacher, or boss, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Such directives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts. The power struggle that follows seldom results in change or brings about excellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring about deep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts.

  Robert E. Quinn

  Change, Struggle, Effort

  Robert E. Quinn (1996). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, Jossey-Bass

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• I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

  John Philip Sousa

  Teaching, Effort, Progress

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• I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

  Wilson Mizner

  Faith, Education, Atheist

  Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan, The Fabulous Wilson Mizner (1935)

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• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Art

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Philosophy, Lying

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• Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.

  John Jay Chapman

  Teaching, Home, Orchids

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teaching, Average

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

  William Osler

  Education, Teaching, Successful

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.215, ACP Press

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• If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Mistake, Teaching

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• The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

  Randy Pausch

  Teaching, Numbers, Goal

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.177, Hachette UK

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• Education is the transmission of civilization.

  Will Durant

  Education, Teaching, Civilization

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Sports, Education

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• The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.

  Wanda Landowska

  Teaching, Tasks, Pupils

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• We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

  Jerome Bruner

  Teaching, Taste, Classroom

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.24, Harvard University Press

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• Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teaching, Mentoring, Students

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.

  William James

  Teaching, Self Love, Desire

  William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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