Quotes About Teaching

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

The teacher's life is painfull and therefore would be pityed: it wrastles with unthankfulnesse above all measure...Our calling creepes low and hath pain for companion.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.