| "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." »William Arthur Ward |
| "Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself." »John Jay Chapman |
| "The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon." »Maria Montessori |
| "Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." »Buddha |
| "The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society." »Shirley Mount Hufstedler |
| "Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell |
| "The city is the teacher of the man." »Simondes of Ceos |
| "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." »Edith Ann |
| "Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher." »German proverb |
| "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." »Thomas Carruthers |
| "Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all." »Unknown |
| "The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself." »Giovanni Ruffini |
| "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." »Flannery O'Connor |
| ""Experience is the best teacher- Personal but also vicarious"" »Yassine Aumerally |
| "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." »Vernon Sanders Law |
| "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." »Hector Berlioz |
| "A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence." »Bruce Lee |
| "A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops." »Henry Adams |
| "Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater." »William Hazlitt |
| "The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson." »Vernon Law |
| "I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night." »Child Age 7 |
| "A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism." »Louis A. Berman |
| "The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence." »Amos Bronson Alcott |
| "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years." »George Burns |
| "Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example." »Louis D. Brandeis |
| "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." »Albert Einstein |
| "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." »Horace Mann |
| "Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary." »Warren Bennis |
| "We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized." »Elliot Wayne Eisner |
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