May 15, Teacher's Day
May 16, 2013
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon” ~ E. M. Forster
“The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.” ~ Anonymous
“We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.” ~ Sasha Azevedo
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” ~ Thomas Carruthers
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” ~Lily Tomlin as Edith Ann
“To teach is to learn twice over.”~ Joseph Joubert
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.~ Albert Einstein
“A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.” ~ Henry Adams
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” ~Kahlil Gibran
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~ Mark van Doren
“I’m m not a teacher but an awakener.” ~ Robert Frost
“Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.” ~ Marva Collins
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.” ~ Marva Collins
“There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.” ~ Lola May
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” ~ William Arthur Ward
“The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.” ~ Robert Brault
“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” ~ Author Unknown
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ~ Henry Brooks Adams
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since youcannot make yourself as you wish to be.” ~ Thomas A. Kempis
“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
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.” ~ Plutarch
“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.” ~Henri Frederic Amiel
“You can pay people to teach, But you can’t pay them to care.” ~ Marva Collins
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ~ Henry Brooks Adams
“He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” ~ Richard Henry Dann
“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.” ~ Aristophenes
“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” ~ Albert Einstein
“Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
“Sometimes one man with courage is a majority.” ~ Andrew Jackson
“Thought flows in terms of stories – stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories.” ~ Frank Smith
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” ~ Josef Albers
“To teach is to learn twice.” ~ Joseph Joubert
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” ~ Louis Hector Berlioz
“Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.” ~ Author Unknown
“Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!” ~ Goethe
“Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.” ~ Author Unknown
“A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.” ~ Buddha
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.” ~ Goethe
“The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” ~ Author Unknown
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” ~ Horace Mann
“Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“The teachers who get “burned out” are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.” ~ Frank Smith
“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.” ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
“Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.” ~ C.B. Neblette
“For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don’t want to learn much.” ~ W.C. Stellar
“The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher’s actions.” ~ Steven Brookfield
“You can’t direct the wind but you can adjust the sails.” ~ Anonymous
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