Teaching Quotations “My teacher thought I was smarter than I was, so I was.” ~~ Unknown “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.” ~~ Patricia Neal “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” ~~ John Steinbeck “Sometimes one wonders if we educators are focusing on the right stuff. We fuss, fret and fume over a child for getting her tenses wrong. And out there, beyond the school walls, over 800,000 adults cannot read or write.” ~~ PG Yeoh “Good teachers are costly; bad teachers are costlier.” ~~ unknown “I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.” ~~ Marva Collins “Spoon feeding, in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” ~~ E.M. Forster “The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty — it is the effectiveness of the teacher.” ~~ Harry K. Wong
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Teaching Quotations
“My teacher thought I was smarter than I was, so I was.”
~~ Unknown
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though,
awakens your own expectations.”
~~ Patricia Neal
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium
is the human mind and spirit.”
~~ John Steinbeck
“Sometimes one wonders if we educators are focusing on the right
stuff. We fuss, fret and fume over a child for getting her tenses
wrong. And out there, beyond the school walls, over 800,000 adults
cannot read or write.”
~~ PG Yeoh
“Good teachers are costly; bad teachers are costlier.”
~~ unknown
“I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three
decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many
victims of teaching inabilities.”
~~ Marva Collins
“Spoon feeding, in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of
the spoon.”
~~ E.M. Forster
“The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is
not poverty — it is the effectiveness of the teacher.”
~~ Harry K. Wong
“It is the teacher — what the teacher knows and can do — that is the
most significant factor in student achievement.”
~~ Harry K. Wong
“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
~~ Erin Majors
“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of
reading.”
~~ B. F. Skinner
“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but
rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge,
was foolproof.”
~~ J. K. Rowling in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
“You cannot teach anybody anything. You can only help
them discover it within themselves.”
~~ Galileo This quote is so appropriate for my class because I often get frustrated
students who say, “Just tell me the answer.” I tell them, “my job is to
help you find the answer, not give it to you.”
Comment by Bonnie Patterson — August 16, 2010
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
~~ Victor Hugo
“To control and sort young people for the sake of
institutional efficiency is to crush the human spirit.”
~~ Ron Miller
“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
~~ H. G. Wells
“The one real object of education is to have a man in the
condition of continually asking questions.”
~~ Bishop Mandell Creighton
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
~~ Joseph Joubert
“I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.”
~~ Winston Churchill
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
~~ Victor Hugo
“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”
~~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
“I teach therefore I am.”
~~ Anonymous
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are
truly endless.”
~~ Mother Teresa
“To teach is to learn twice.”
~~ Joseph Joubert
“Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to
teach.”
~~ Albert Einstein
“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where
only one grew before.”
~~ Elbert Hubbard
“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
~~ Chinese proverb
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be
teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something
less…”
~~ Lee Iacocca
“Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.”
~~ Benjamin Franklin
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively
unnecessary.”
~~ Thomas Carruthers
“A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less
money.”
~~ unknown
“My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has
happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my
little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed.”
~~ Anne Sullivan
“A word as to the education of the heart. We don’t believe
that this can be imparted through books; it can only be
imparted through the loving touch of the teacher.”
~~ Cesar Chavez
“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him.”
~~ James Baldwin
“That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers:
good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers
foresee a pupil’s ends.”
~~ Maria Callas
“Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the
learner; put yourself in his place so that you may
understand what he learns and the way he understands
it.”
~~ Soren Kierkegaard
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in
creative expression and knowledge.”
~~ Albert Einstein
“It’s not what is poured into a student, but what is planted.”
~~ Linda Conway
“Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the
foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.”
~~ Albert Einstein
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover
it in himself.” Galileo
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.”
~~ Gail Godwin
“The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious,
to have one idea spark another.”
~~ Marva Collins
“A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than
by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among
them, as comets amongst the stars.”
~~ Linnaeus
“Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but
that’s because you’re a teacher.”
~~ Aaron Bacall
“Teaching is not a profession; it’s a passion.” ~~ Unknown
“The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the
subject matter we teach.”
~~ Meladee McCarty
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his
influence stops.”
~~ Henry B. Adams
“There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.”
~~ Marva Collins
“The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate
themselves throughout their lives.”
~~ Robert Maynard Hutchins
“I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.”
~~ Chinese Proverb
“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality
in themselves.”
~~ Joseph Campbell
“They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you
made them feel.”
~~ Carl W.Buechner
“The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what
you learned this afternoon.”
~~ Anonymous
“It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill
the minds of students with facts… it is to teach them to think.”
~~ Robert Hutchins
“Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools,
experience, or personal disposition alone can accomplish.”
~~ Sharon Feiman-Nemser
“As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation to help the
children in my classroom grow toward becoming full
human beings and to feel successful.”
~~ Jean Medick
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I
learn.”
~~ Benjamin Franklin
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening
the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of
