Teachers Quotes
teachers Day India A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM address on the eve of Teachers' Day in India
Quotes for teachers
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ~Jacques
Barzun
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert
| Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown The true teacher defends his pupils against his
own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from
himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ~Amos
Bronson Alcott |
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Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And
surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious
treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher
explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~William Arthur Ward
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires
his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop
students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger
| "I hear, and I forget. I see,
and I remember. I do, and I understand." - Chinese Proverb
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| "If you always do what
you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got" - NLP adage
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| "No matter how good teaching
may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education." -
John Carolus S. J.
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| "People's behavior makes
sense if you think about it inn terms of their goals, needs, and motives." -
Thomas Mann
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| "Praise, like gold and
diamonds, owes its values only to its scarcity." - Samuel Johnson
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| "Spoon feeding in the long
run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon" - E. M. Forster
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| "Teachers should guide
without dictating, and participate without dominating." - C.B. Neblette
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| "Teach your children by what
you are, not just by what you say" - Jane Revell & Susan Norman
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| "The authority of those who
teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." - Cicero
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| "The basic idea behind
teaching is to teach people what they need to know." - Carl Rogers
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| "The job of an educator is
to teach students to see the vitality in themselves." - Joseph Campbell
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| "The mind is not a vessel to
be filled, but a fire to be ignited." - Plutarch
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| "To me the sole hope of
human salvation lies in teaching." - George Bernard Shaw
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| "To teach is to learn
twice." - Joseph Joubert
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| "Try to present at least
three options. One is no choice at all. Two creates a dilemma. With three
you begin to have real choice and flexibility" - Jane Revell & Susan Norman
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| "We think too much about
effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of
learning." - John Carolus S. J.
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| "What we want is to see the
child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." -
George Bernard Shaw
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| "Who dares to teach must
never cease to learn." - John Cotton Dana
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| "You cannot teach a man
anything; you can only help him find it within himself." - Galielo Galilei
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