“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 F. Drucker
“The object of teaching a child is to enable them to get along without their teacher.”
Elbert Hubbard
“No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.”
Bertrand Russell
“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
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Mark van Doren
“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