Quotes About Teachers

This blog is student's choice. Therefore, I decided to post some quotes about teaching I found on this link: http://www.quotegarden.com/teachers.html. I believe quotes can be inspirational, meaningful and thought-provoking. Reading the quotes listed below, it can be seen how important being a teacher really is. Enjoy! =)

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." -Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

"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

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

"Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions." - Author Unknown

"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 nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job." - Donald D. Quinn

"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." - Author Unknown

"We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children." - John Sculley

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

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." - Karl Menninger

"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

"Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them." - Author Unknown

"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 raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." - Carl Jung

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." - Kahlil Gibran

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people." - K. Patricia Cross

"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son." - The Talmud

"To teach is to learn twice." - Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842

"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach." - Peter Drucker

"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task." - Haim G. Ginott

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