Quotes About Teaching

Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

Computers aren't magic; teachers are.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.