Teacher quotes

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -- Benjamin Franklin


The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William A. Ward


"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank...but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child." -- Forest Witchcraft


I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. 


The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.


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

Give me a fish and I eat for a day.  Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb

To think is to differ.
Clarence Darrow

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”
Diogenes Laertius

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility.
Howard Lester

We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning.
John Carolus S.J.

No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education.
John Carolus S.J.

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning: by praise, but above all, by example.
John Ruskin

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

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Marcus T. Cicero

To arrive at the simple is difficult.
Rashid  Elisha

One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.
Sophocles

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest.
T.S. Eliot

God understood our thirst for knowledge, and our need to be led by someone wiser;
He needed a heart of compassion, of encouragement, and patience;
Someone who would accept the challenge regardless of the opposition;
Someone who could see potential and believe in the best in others . . .
So He made Teachers.
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