“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
Gail Godwin
“The object of teaching a child is to enable them to get along without their teacher.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
Patricia Neal
“There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly”
Lola May
“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
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
Jacques Barzun
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Mark van Doren