Quotes for teachers:
Love your students first. Teach them second. (Christa McAuliffe) The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter were teaching. (Meladee McCarty) One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been. (Thomas Groome) Ive come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. Its my personal approach that creates the climate. Its my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a persons life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a person humanized or de-humanized. (Haim Ginnot) The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. (Plato) I touch the future. I teach. (Christa McAuliffe) Teaching is not a profession; its a passion. (Source Unknown) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. (William Arthur Wand) The people who influence you are people who believe in you. (Henry Dummond) Anyone who keeps learning stays young. (Henry Ford) You can pay people to teach, but you cant pay them to care. (Marva Collins) Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.) One of the most important things a teacher can do is to send the pupil home in the afternoon liking himself just a little better than when he came in the morning. Children are our most valuable natural resource. (Herbert Hoover) Teach as though you were teaching your own children. (Anonymous) Its not how you live, its whose life you change in the wake of yours. (Source Unknown)
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) One of the beauties of teaching is that there is no limit to ones growth as a teacher, just as there is no knowing beforehand how much your student can learn. (Herbert Kohl) The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. (Mark van Doren) Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. (Margaret Mead) To teach is to learn again. (Oliver Wendell Holmes) There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. (Rusty Berkus) The secret of education is respecting the pupil. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (F.D. Roosevelt) A teacher affects eternity; he cant never tell where his influence stops. (Henry Adams) The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. (Robert Maynard Hutchins) An education is not a thing one gets, but a life-long process. (Gloria Steinem) The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get long without his teacher. (Elbert Hubbart) The student armed with information will always win the battle. (Meladee McCarty) When the pupil is ready, the teacher will come. (Chinese Proverb) We ask for strength and the Great Spirit gives us difficulties, which makes us strong. (Native American Prayer) Whats done to children, they will do to society. (Karl Menninger) When someone is taught the joy of learning it becomes a lifelong process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching. (Marva Collins)
Inside every great teacher is an even greater one coming to come out. (Source Unknown) Excellence is love in action. (Source Unknown) Teach your students to use what talents they have; the woods would be silent if no bird sang except those that sing best. (Anynomous) Children: a great way to grow people. (Source Unknown) There is no education like adversity. (Benjamin Disraeli) We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he or she is someone today. (Stacia Tausher) (Taken from a comic strip) A student: Sure, maybe Im an under-achiever. But did you ever stop to think that youre an over-demanding teacher? (taken from Chicken Soup for Teachers Soul)
