Inspirational Sayings and Quotes for Teachers

Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:13 pm

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.
~ F. W. Robertson

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

The
important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock

Teacher : The child's third parent.
~ [b]Hyman Berston[/b]

Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:08 pm

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the

man who instructs the rising generation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught,

as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

John Lubbock

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents,

for these only gave life,those the art of living well.

Aristotle

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Whatever
you want to teach, be brief.
Horace

Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:42 pm

They are great " quotes" or Inspirational Thoughts . Thanks a lot for posting them ! You will be very kind if you drop one or two quotes from time to time . bounce

Mon Nov 19, 2012 2:20 pm

Mr.HAMADA wrote:

You will be very kind if you drop one or two quotes from time to time .

That's what I intend to do ,sir with a great deal of pleasure and

enjoyment as I am thankful to every generous teacher who posted and

shared ( will post and will share) whatever he believes may be beneficial

to the teaching community.

Gratefully

Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:46 pm

Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:48 pm Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”

Karl A.Menninger

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well”

Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:52 pm Message reputation : 100% (1 vote)

“The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently
unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers,
the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and
spouses, the way they will raise their kids.”

“You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”

“The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life."

**Wed Nov 21, 2012 6:54 pm**

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

Children are like wet cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression.

- Haim Ginott

If kids come to us 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

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

James Baldwin

**Fri Nov 23, 2012 7:25 pm**

"It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; but that he who teaches, give them eyes."
~David O Mckay

"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

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Marva Collins

"It is greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the
world,than to rule a state"

William Ellery Channing

**Sat Nov 24, 2012 7:55 pm**

"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching."
~Henri Amiel

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

"The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in
a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it
must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to
them."

Stephen Brookfield

**Wed Nov 28, 2012 9:29 pm**

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching;and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet,philosopher.

**Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:19 am**

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

Andy Rooney
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us.
Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of
their lives.

Edward Blishen
Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.