Quotes

Your students will not care how much you know, until they know how much you care. //Scannella//

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. //Abraham Lincoln//

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. //Author Unknown//

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. //Donald D. Quinn//

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. //Bob Talbert//

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. //John Sculley//

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. //John Cotton Dana//

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. //Ignacio Estrada//

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanised or de-humanised. //Dr Haim Ginott//

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. //Albert Einstein//

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. //Chinese Proverb//

A child miseducated is a child lost. //John F. Kennedy//

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

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

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. //Josef Albers//

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre. //Gail Goldwin//

There are two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. //Indira Gandhi//

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. //Carl Jung//

//Never try to teach a pig to sing....it wastes your time and annoys the pig. Anonymous//

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. //Author Unknown//

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. //Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton//