(127 quotes found)
“America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”
Jane Addams
“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
“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
Lily Tomlin
“More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given”
Bertrand Russell
“Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.”
Sidney Hook
“The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.”
“What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impactupon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.”
Sasha Azevedo
