Teacher Quotes
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
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.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."