Teacher Quotes

Quotes about Teaching

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. ~Goethe

The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have. ~Leonard Nimoy

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ~Lao Tzu

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. ~Fulton J. Sheen

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

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

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

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. ~William Glasser

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown

Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. ~Robert Brault

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana

To teach is to learn twice. ~Joseph Joubert

Teachers touch the future. ~Author Unknown

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher. ~Aristotle

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. ~Aristotle

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others. ~Tyron Edwards

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. ~Malcom Gladwel

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. ~Anonymous

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ~Alexander the Great

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. ~Ruth Beechick

True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion. ~Allan Lokos

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves. ~Joseph Campbell

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. ~Robert Frost

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. ~Alfred North Whitehead

I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. ~Anne Lamott

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. ~John Hersey

Education is improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. ~Marian Wright Edelman

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the world, than to rule a state. ~William Ellery Channing

The whole art of teaching is only the 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 contended and happy. ~Anatole France

For good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelfful of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance, I think. It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening. ~Laurent A. Daloz

Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn. ~Loris Malaguzzi


Posted by Adam Williss, Founder of The Dragon Institute

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Quotes about Teaching The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. ~Goethe The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have. ~Leonard Nimoy I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ~Lao Tzu Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. ~Fulton J. Sheen In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. ~William Glasser Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. ~Author Unknown The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. ~Robert Brault Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana To teach is to learn twice. ~Joseph Joubert Teachers touch the future. ~Author Unknown A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher. ~Aristotle Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. ~Aristotle The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others. ~Tyron Edwards Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. ~Malcom Gladwel You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. ~Anonymous I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ~Alexander the Great A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. ~Ruth Beechick True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion. ~Allan Lokos The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves. ~Joseph Campbell I am not a teacher, but an awakener. ~Robert Frost Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. ~Alfred North Whitehead I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. ~Anne Lamott There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. ~John Hersey Education is improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. ~Marian Wright Edelman Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero It is greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the world, than to rule a state. ~William Ellery Channing The whole art of teaching is only the 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 contended and happy. ~Anatole France For good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelfful of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance, I think. It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening. ~Laurent A. Daloz Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn. ~Loris Malaguzzi Posted by Adam Williss, Founder of The Dragon Institute