Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
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 raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Kahlil Gibran
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
K. Patricia Cross
When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
The Talmud
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Author Unknown
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
Robert Brault
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.
Author Unknown
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August.
Author Unknown
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
Thomas Szaz
To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
Author Unknown
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
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the “naturals,” the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Haim G. Ginott
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren