Quotes About Teaching

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.