Quotes of Teachers - somelinesforyou

“ What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Good teaching is one. fourth preparation and three. fourths theatre. ”

- Gail Goldwin

“ A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils. ”

- Ever Garrison

“ Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education…to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. ”

- John Adams

“ I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ”

- Socrates

“ If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. ”

- Chinese proverb

“ What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. ”

- Confucius

“ Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be. ”

- Rita Pierson

“ If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- William A. Ward

“ Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ”

- John Dewey

“ A mind when stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. ”

- Anonymous

“ Education is not filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ The best way to predict your future is to create it. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Friendship is a horizon – which expands whenever we approach it. ”

- E.R. Hazlip

“ The secret in education lies in respecting the student. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ”

- B.F. Skinner

“ There is no friends as loyal as a book. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Do you know the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him; and in that I am his pupil. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ When you learn, teach. When you get, give. ”

- Maya Angelou

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

- Robert Frost

“ Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything! ”

- George Carlin

“ A child mis. educated is a child lost. ”

- John F. Kennedy
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