(1734 quotes found)
“Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.”
Sidney Hook
“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
“To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.”
Benjamin Jowett
“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”
Clarence Darrow
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”
Dr. Haim Ginott
“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
Jacques Barzun
“He who learns, teaches”
African Proverb
“The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy”
Anatole France
“No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.”
Plato
“The difference between good teachers and great teachers is that great teachers have mastered the art of teaching people things they didn't know they needed to learn.”
Jeff Wahl
