Quotes on Being A Teacher

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.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

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