TEACHER - quotes

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The Great Teacher inspires.   (William Arthur Ward)

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.   (Jackues Barzun)

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on old iron.   (Horace Mann)

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for the months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.   (Donal D. Quinn)

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.   (Henry Brooks Adams)

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to one spirit that quickens him. He will have no discipline.   (Amos Bronson Alcot)

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.   (Karl Menninger)

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.   (Author unknown)

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.   (Galileo)

We teach what we need to learn.   (Gloria Steinen)

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)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.   (Malcolm Forbes)

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.   (Ignacio Estrada)