Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Teachers and Teaching

Teaching

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.--Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The best teachers are the best storytellers.--Frank Smith (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.--Flannery O'Connor
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.--Mary Catherine Bateson
A good teacher is never done … always trying to reinvent, improve and inspire.--David Carlson (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.--Marva Collins (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.--Eliphas Levi
Good teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.--Ann Lieberman (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.--Gail Godwin
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 (The Absorbent Mind)
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.--Robert Frost
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit…--John Steinbeck
If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.--Ignacio 'Nacho' Estrada
If kids come to us [educators/teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.--Barbara Colorose
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.--Lee Iaccoca
Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.--John Jay Chapman
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.--Albert Einstein
The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.--John Garrett
Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on.--Douglas Pagels
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.--Patricia Neal with Richard DeNeut (As I Am: An Autobiography)
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.--William A. Ward
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given.--Bertrand Russell (Education and the Good Life)
The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.--Jean Piaget (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
No man can reveal to you aught but what which already lies half asleep in the dawing of your knowledge.--Kahlil Gibran ("On Teaching," The Prophet)
The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.--Randy Pausch
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.--Elbert Hubbard
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching--Aristotle
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary new material, but the warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.--Carl Jung
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 Hufstedler
The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.--Wanda Landowska (in Landowska on Music by Restout)
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.--Henry Brooks Adams
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.--Wallace Stegner (Crossing To Safety)
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.--Elbert Hubbard
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.--Goethe (Elective Affinities)
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.--Horace Mann
A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony and one-eighth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.--Susan Ohanian (Ask Ms. Class)
Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.--Unknown
Teaching is a calling, not a choice.--Mary Ann Alexander (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.--Jacques Barzun (Teacher in America)
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.--Bob Talbert
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.--Alice Wellington Rollins
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.--Henri Frederic Amiel (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.--Ben Jonson
We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. ... What we can best learn from good teachers is how to teach ourselves better.--John Holt
We teach what we need to learn.--Gloria Steinem (Revelation From Within)
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?--Cicero (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?--Cicero
What nobler profession than to touch the next generation--to see children hold your understanding in their eyes, your hope in their lives, your world in their hands. In their success, you find your own and so to them you give your all.--Unknown ("The Essence of Teaching")
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?--Bharati Mukhejee ("Buried Lives" The Middleman)
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.--Anatole France
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals)
You can pay people to teach, but you can't pay them to care.--Marva Collins (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.--Galileo
You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.--Scott Adams