Teachers' Quotation

1.         A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes. (Author Unknown)

2.         A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. (Horace Mann)

3.         Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.( Nikos Kazantzakis)

4.         Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. (Marva Collins)

5.         The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. (Mark Van Doren)

6.         The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. (Elbert Hubbard)

7.         The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. (Author Unknown)

8.         Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. ( Goethe)

9.         Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first.  The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.  When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. (Marva Collins)

10.      Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers. (Richard Bach)

11.      Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence. (Helen Keller)

12.      To teach is to learn twice. (Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842)

13.      Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. (John Cotton Dana)

14.      What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased. (Author Unknown)

15.      They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel." - Carol Buchner

16.      Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. (Frank Outlaw)

17.      Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. (Josef Albers)

18.      Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. (Jacques Barzun)

19.      Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. (Benjamin Franklin

20.      We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)

21.      You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner and without any air of constraint with the further object of discerning more readily the natural bent of their respective characters (Plato)

22.      Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)

23.      Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. (Bob Talbert)

24.      The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth. (Dan Rather)

25.      Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)