Quotes on Teachers & Teaching
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``Teaching is leaving a vestige of oneself in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.'' |
-Eugene P. Bertin |
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"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." |
-Karl Menninger |
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"I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand." |
-Chinese Proverb |
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"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope or dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation." |
-John F. Kennedy |
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"If you study to remember, you will forget. But if you study to understand, you will remember." |
-Unknown |
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"Teaching is not a profession; it is a passion. Without passion for your subject and a desire for your students to learn and be the best in the world, we have failed as teachers, and failure is not an option." |
-John Podojil |
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"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others." |
-Tyron Edwards |
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"To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, and to learn you must first fail." |
-Wesley Woo |
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"If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be." |
-Unknown |
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"The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette." |
-Henry Hoskins |
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"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go." |
-Excerpt from Randy Travis' "Three Wooden Crosses" |
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"I always thank my teachers: they are the ones who help mold you for the rest of your life, they are the inspiring people you trust, and finally, they can be your friends." |
- Kelly G. |
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"You teach a little by what you say. You teach the most by what you are." |
-Dr. Henrietta Mears |
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"The person who upsets you the most is your best teacher, because they bring you face to face with who you are." |
-Lynn Andrews |
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"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." |
- Father James Keller |
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"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground." |
- Stephen R. Covey |
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"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." |
-Robert Goheen, Time Magazine |
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been." |
-C. Hoppe |
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"Teaching is the highest form of understanding." |
- Aristotle |
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"What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all of our tomorrows." |
- Alexandra Stoddard |
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"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" |
- George Eliot |
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"By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn." |
- Latin Proverb |
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"We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves." |
- Rene Descartes |
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"Strive to be the teacher that students remember long after they've graduated. When they do, you know you've truly touched their lives forever." |
- Vanessa Paje |
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"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself." |
- John Jay Chapman |
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"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, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have." |
- Lee Iacocca |
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"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child." |
- Unknown |
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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." |
- Anonymous |
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." |
- Henry Brooks Adams |
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"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." |
- Baba Dioum |
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"We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives." |
- Jonathan Sacks |
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"To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded." |
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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