Quotes About Teaching

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

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.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers.

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

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

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.