Friday, September 4, 2009

Teachers Day Quotes(September 5,2009)


  • Teacher Quotes

  • A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown  

  • Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

  • Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~Jacques Barzun

  • Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert

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

  • The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ~Amos Bronson Alcott

  • A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman

  • 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

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

  • The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

  • A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown

  • What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger

  • "I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand." - Chinese Proverb

  • "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got" - NLP adage

  • "No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education." - John Carolus S. J.

  • "People's behavior makes sense if you think about it inn terms of their goals, needs, and motives." - Thomas Mann

  • "Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity." - Samuel Johnson

  • "Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon" - E. M. Forster

  • "Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating." - C.B. Neblette

  • "Teach your children by what you are, not just by what you say" - Jane Revell & Susan Norman

  • "The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." - Cicero

  • "The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know." - Carl Rogers

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

  • "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited." - Plutarch

  • "To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching." - George Bernard Shaw

  • "To teach is to learn twice." - Joseph Joubert

  • "Try to present at least three options. One is no choice at all. Two creates a dilemma. With three you begin to have real choice and flexibility" - Jane Revell & Susan Norman

  • "We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning." - John Carolus S. J.

  • "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." - George Bernard Shaw

  • "Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." - John Cotton Dana

  • "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." - Galielo Galilei  

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