Tuesday, November 15, 2011

teacher-cotations

A poor teacher tells
An average teacher explains
A good teacher demonstrates
A great teacher inspires !


A mistake of a doctor is burried in the graveyard.
A mistake of a lawyer is lost in the fiiles.
But mistake of a teacher is reflected in a generation.


“A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.”
Aristotle

“Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.”
Aristotle

“Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.”
Cato

“Teach the children so that it willnot be necessary to teach the adults.”
Abraham Lincoln


“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Benjamin Franklin

“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
Plato

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”
Plutarch

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well”
Alexander the Great

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Henry Adams

“Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.”
Helen Peters

“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
Soren Kierkegaard

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
Andy McIntyre

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
Robert M. Hutchins

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Victor Hugo

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
H.G. Wells

“Without teacher appreciation there can’t be any student progress.”
Theresa Grimm

“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
Malcolm Forbes

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
Gail Godwin

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
Helen Keller

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
Jacques Barzun

“In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
Jacques Barzun

“Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.”
William Prince

“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”
Wilson Mizner

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.”
Patricia Neal

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Mark van Doren

“The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.”
Marva Collins

“To teach is to learn twice.”
Joseph Joubert

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
John C. Dana

“When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.”
The Talmud

“Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.”
Bob Talbert

“A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.”
Louis Berman

“If students don’t feel teacher appreciation, their whole education has failed.”
Michael Balkers

“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.”
Karl Kraus

“A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
Thomas Carruthers

“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
Chinese proverb

“There are three good reasons to be a teacher: June, July, and August.”
Anonymous

”Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.”
Anonymous

“The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.”
Anonymous

“Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”
Anonymous

“A good teacher is like a candle: it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
Anonymous

“A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.”
Anonymous

“Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.”
Anonymous

"By viewing the old we learn the new"
Chinese Proverb

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. "
Henry Adams

"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers."
Josef Albers

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influences..."
Amos Alcott