34 quotes found
“Teachers are mind engineers! Teachers are life directors! Dont ever undermine a teacher!”
“Even we set aside the nearly 50 percent of all beginner teachers who choose to leave the profession within five yearsand ignore the evidence that those who leave are worse performers than those who...”
“One thing I more and this is all I have to say...High School is not a separate unit from you. We are apart of you. Every man, woman, and child in this community is a part...Your ways of life in you...”
“The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.”
“Our professional competence and pride should rest not alone in our possession of knowledge but as well in our ability to communicate it. Of course we shall carry on our research, and of course we s...”
“Did one learn or was one shaped?”
“The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach, and that your classes consist of eighteen students or fewer. Classes of eighteen students or...”
“We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom”
“Do me a favour and go out and perform one of the activities I hear the youth enjoy this Friday, like defacing public property.”
“To teach is to learn twice.”
“The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.”
“Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
“A high-school teacher after all is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in and to defend if possible the part their elders are playin...”
“He who can does. He who can't teaches.”
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
“The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.”
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.”
“We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.”
