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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

When we grew up and went to school_x000D_There were certain teachers who would_x000D_Hurt the children any way they could_x000D_By pouring their derision_x000D_Upon anything we did_x000D_Exposing every weakness_x000D_However carefully hidden by the kids.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious

We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.

We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

The teacher's life is painfull and therefore would be pityed: it wrastles with unthankfulnesse above all measure...Our calling creepes low and hath pain for companion.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.