TEACHER QUOTESTEACHER QUOTES

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to

walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

-Phyllis Diller

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to

walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

-Phyllis Diller

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting

the lesson.- Vernon Law

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting

the lesson.- Vernon Law

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a

cold iron. - Horace Mann

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a

cold iron. - Horace Mann

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

- Latin Proverb

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

- Latin Proverb

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the

way they learn. -Ignacio Estrada

If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the

way they learn. -Ignacio Estrada

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

-Colleen Wilcox

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

-Colleen Wilcox

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible

task.-Dr. Haim Ginott

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible

task.-Dr. Haim Ginott

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.

The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Ward

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.

The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Ward

"They may forget what you said, But they will never forget how you made them feel."

"They may forget what you said, But they will never forget how you made them feel."

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the

kind of car I drove . . . but the world maybe different because I

was important in the life of a child.- Kathy Davis

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the

kind of car I drove . . . but the world maybe different because I

was important in the life of a child.- Kathy Davis

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 humanized or de-humanized. -Dr. Haim Ginott

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 humanized or de-humanized. -Dr. Haim Ginott

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it

makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong,

healthy functioning families, it makes our job more important.

-Barbara Colorose

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it

makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong,

healthy functioning families, it makes our job more important.

-Barbara Colorose

No person can be a good teacher unless they have feelings of warm affection towards their pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what they believe to be of value.

-Bertrand Russell

No person can be a good teacher unless they have feelings of warm affection towards their pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what they believe to be of value.

-Bertrand Russell

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of

teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given. -Bertrand Russell

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of

teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given. -Bertrand Russell

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for

themselves.- Robert Hutchins

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for

themselves.- Robert Hutchins

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

- Thomas Carruthers

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

- Thomas Carruthers

The greatest sign of success for a teacher…is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did

not exist.”-Maria Montessori

The greatest sign of success for a teacher…is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did

not exist.”-Maria Montessori

“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us

what life is all about.”

“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us

what life is all about.”

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