Some Quotes on Teachers' Day
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
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.
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
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.
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
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.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
"I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand."
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got"
"No matter how good teaching may be, each student must take the responsibility for his own education."
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
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.
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
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.
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.
If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.
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