Teachers And Teaching Quotes - Page 2

• Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Buddhist, Teaching

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• Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Education, Teacher

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• The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics”, p.148

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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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• 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. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Abraham Lincoln's Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature, March 9, 1832.

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• I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

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  Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Inspirational, Success, Teacher

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• I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Education, Teacher, Believe

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

  Joseph Addison

  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

  The Spectator, No. 215, November 6, 1711.

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• A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

  Darwin D. Martin

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

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• Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Education, Teacher

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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 one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

  Aristotle

  Life, Teacher, Teaching

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• Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Successful

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• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

  George Washington Carver

  Education, Teacher, Freedom

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.62, University of Missouri Press

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, Men

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• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

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• There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

  Pat Conroy

  Teacher, Teaching, Heart

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.459, Open Road Media

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• None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Teacher, Soulmate, Teaching

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• Education is the best provision for old age.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

  Sympathy, Education, Children

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• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

  Plutarch

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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