(127 quotes found)
“Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life”
Aristotle
“If kids come to us [educators / teachers] 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
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”
Confucius
“A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.”
Buddha
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
John Steinbeck
“To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.”
Tryon Edwards
“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen”
Philip Wylie
“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
“Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead”
Bertrand Russell
