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  • A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

    George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”
  • A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

    The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)
  • Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

    "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.
  • What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

  • Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

    "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions". Book by Minna Antrim, 1901.
  • I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

    Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan, The Fabulous Wilson Mizner (1935)
  • What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

    Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.178
  • We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to work with people, that you're able to support yourself and live out a great life being a teacher.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

    Funny   Witty   Teacher  
    Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)
  • 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.

  • Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

    Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.
  • If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

    "Chappelle the Shape-Shifter Sits Still Long Enough to Chat" by Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2006.
  • Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

    Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The development of personality”
  • Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

    William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337
  • I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.

    Teacher   Kids   Thinking  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

    David Brooks (2011). “The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens”, p.83, Short Books
  • Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

    Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on
  • I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

  • A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

    Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225
  • A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

  • It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

    Teacher   Gay   Proud  
  • He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

    Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.9
  • It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press
  • Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

    Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.82
  • If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

    Teacher   School   Mind  
  • Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

    Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press
  • My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

    "Geek of the Week: Niklaus Wirth". Interview with Richard Morris, www.red-gate.com. July 26, 2012.
  • And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]loves being a star. And she loves being a teacher and a leader and a mentor and a big friend. Also, she's tall. She's one of the tallest girls in the school. And she's an athlete. And she writes many years later, at the end of her life, she writes that the happiest day, the happiest single day of her life was the day that she made the first team at field hockey. And I have to say, as a biographer, that's the most important fact. I

    Girl   Teacher   Stars  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • [on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

    "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.
  • The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

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