Teacher Quotes - Page 7

• You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

  Aristophanes

  Crabs, Teach, Walks

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• We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Children, Angel, Needs

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• If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

  Ole Ivar Lovaas

  Inspiring, Education, Learning

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

  Scott Hamilton

  Ninth Grade, Grades, Smarter

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Appreciation

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• 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

  Leadership, Children, Teenage

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• Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Enemies List”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Education, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 29, 2016

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• There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

  Robert Sternberg

  Unique, Recipes, Great Teacher

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• Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

  Tracy Kidder

  Skills, Pyramids, People

  Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

  Henny Youngman

  Teaching, Men, Self

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• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Appreciation, Teaching

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• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Education

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• When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational, Retirement, Judging

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam

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• I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

  Alexander the Great

  Fathers Day, Appreciation, Teaching

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• 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

  Education, Appreciation, Retirement

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• A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

  Brad Henry

  Hope, Teaching, Imagination

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• What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

  David W. Orr

  Beauty, Real, Humility

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• All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Skills, Challenges, Different

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• The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

  Joyce Cary

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

  Marva Collins

  Happiness, Success, Suicide

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