Teachers and teaching quotations

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◆ What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists

- William Jennings Bryan98

◆ Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

- Albert Einstein98

◆ The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees...

- Andre Segovia98

◆ The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

- Aristotle98

◆ Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

- Joseph Weizenbaum98

◆ Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

- Benjamin Franklin98

◆ When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

- Sparky Anderson98

◆ Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior

- Jesse Helms98

◆ The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself

- Italian Proverb98

◆ Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

- George Bernard Shaw98

◆ We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

- Sasha Azevedo98

◆ The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer

- Alice Wellington Rollins98

◆ You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

- Friedrich Nietzsche98

◆ Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

- Aristotle98