Quotes of Teacher - somelinesforyou

“ The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. ”

- Berenice Abbott

“ A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. ”

- Horace Mann

“ Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay. ”

- Jeb Bush

“ She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now. ”

- Fred Allen

“ A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ”

- Henry Adams

“ Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards. ”

- Vernon Sanders Law

“ A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ”

- Patricia Neal

“ A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ”

- Thomas Carruthers

“ A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. ”

- Marva Collins

“ The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. ”

- Unknown

“ Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher — that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher. ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. ”

- Dan Quayle

“ We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. ”

- Carl Rogers

“ The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. ”

- Howard Crosby

“ A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money. ”

- Unknown

“ Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. ”

- Vernon Law

“ To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student. ”

- Unknown

“ Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. ”

- Minna Thomas Antrim

“ I am not a teacher, but an awakener. ”

- Robert Frost

“ In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement. ”

- Edward Blishen

“ Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Once more I would adopt the graver style — a teacher should be sparing of his smile. ”

- William Cowper
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